Please remember that Paul Manafort picked Mike Pence to be V.P..

[Botany]

http://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-was-handpicked-paul-manafort-696412

Before Trump formally announced Pence as his vice presidential candidate, it was Manafort who made sure it happened, The New York Times reported last year.

Trump had hesitated to settle on Pence, who was governor of Indiana. Trump was fielding last-ditch appeals from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and publicly said he had not made a “final, final decision” until advisers like Manafort reminded him of the importance of uniting the GOP around conservative Christian values.

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CBS News reported that Pence was Manafort's "first choice" and that Manafort even lied about mechanical problems on Trump's plane to make the soon-to-be GOP nominee stay an extra day in Indiana to get to know Pence. In a phone call, Manafort assured Trump that Pence was the right choice and made a case that won over the real estate tycoon.

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The decision came during the three months Manafort served as Trump's campaign manager, after advising him earlier in the year. Just a month after the Pence pick, Manafort was out, with reports about his foreign finances and government lobbying creating a cloud around the campaign.

[Me.]

1. That Alone Should Land Him In Jail

[Botany]

2. Manafort at that time was working for Putin too

From where I sit* the President, Vice President, A.G., and Sec. of State were
all picked by Russia.



* Botany =

[Me.]

9. Agreed

[triron]

24. +1000

[Leghorn21]

3. Copy that, B - and I just found out a couple weeks ago that Tom Barrack brought Manafort to Rump:

...

This must have seemed like a great idea to Barrack, as he could make two good friends happy at the same time. What he almost definitely didn’t then realize is that Manafort had an ulterior motive and was a desperate man.

It’s been known for some time that Manafort was deeply in debt when he approached Barrack about working for Donald Trump. Specifically, the New York Times reported in July that Manafort owed as much as $19 million to a Russian oligarch with mob connections named Oleg V. Deripaska.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10/31/what-did-thomas-barrack-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/

...and I found this out only because it was revealed recently that Barrack has had a chat with Mr. Mueller & Co., hmmmmmm

GOOD TIMES

BRING ME MANAFORT

[Botany]

4. This is the largest world wide criminal syndicate in the history of the world

It hard to fathom how big it is but one thing we know for sure is that Trump
and company are in it up to their eyeballs.

[Leghorn21]

8. it's simply breathtaking in its scope, B..and for fun, while we're at it, turns out Barrack is a big

mucky muck with First Republic Bank, where Cohen set up his Essential Consultants LLC...things that make you go “hmmmmmm” as well as “ROCK STEADY, MR. MUELLER”





Cohen established his bank account for Essential Consultants LLC at First Republic Bank – where Trump’s friend of 30 years, Tom Barrack, served on the Board of Directors. Barrack was also Chair of Trump’s Inaugural Committee, under scrutiny itself for funny money doings.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2018/05/michael-cohen-got-3-million-more-from-unnamed-sources-records-vanish/

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. "No collusion", LMAO.

[WhiteTara]

6. I have never forgotten that he gave us that

smarmy phony nasty dominionist white supremacist privileged man.

[brush]

27. I get why Manafort would take the chance to witness tamper. He's staring at...

the rest of his life in jail. He gave it a shot.

He's in his late 60s. If his bail is recinded because of the tampering, that's it.

He'll never see the light of day again as he's going to be convicted.

Woohoo!

[nature-lover]

7. Keep this at the forefront of any political discussion. Pence is there for a malevolent reason.

We cannot let Pence fly under the radar.

[cbdo2007]

10. Exactly why the "pence will pardon Trump" bs is bs

He may not be the ringleader but he is certainly involved.

[empedocles]

11. Amazing how the 'dots' keep connecting

What a complicated web

[Amaryllis]

31. I wast thinking if anyone had written it as a novel or screenplay, it would have been rejected

as too unbelievable. a conspiracy this vast....

[empedocles]

32. Suspect many have started writing history, longview memoirs, books, articles on the Trump mess.

Some justice will be done to trump no matter what.

[NewJeffCT]

12. didn't Manafort also

help rewrite the GOP platform for the RNC by taking out some anti-Russia stuff?

[Botany]

14. Yes and Russian Ambassador Kislyak, Jeff Sessions, and Mike Pence were there too.

n/t

[enid602]

13. Oh noes

Does that mean that 'Mother' is one of the pod people too.

[flying_wahini]

15. When people say they want Mueller to wrap it up I always say that the

ROT of this administration knows no limits; it goes so deep they can't
Find the bottom of the swamp.

[Botany]

18. It is all tied into an international crime network

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt
operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

******
But money laundering seems to be a constant when it comes to Trump and company.

[Achilleaze]

16. Groan - The Pence of Darkness

lies in waiting

[Hekate]

19. TY for bringing this up. We seriously need to find out wtf that was all about. nt

[hunter]

20. Pence wouldn't be vice president if he wasn't as dirty as the rest of them.

Aside from whatever political corruption he's involved in, Pence is a very creepy man.

The modern Republican Party is held together by blackmail and threats of mutually assured destruction.

[Botany]

22. As a dull ass old straight white dude Pence seems to scream Bill Shakespeare's line

""The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

[Scurrilous]

21. K&R

[Blue Owl]

23. Manafart's Mother Load

n/t

[greymattermom]

26. So Pence in my mind is a creepy Indiana Christian guy

How does he connect with Putin???

[hunter]

29. Sadly, there's no such thing as brain bleach.

[dalton99a]

28. In other words, approved by Vladimir Putin.

[Botany]

30. Da!

да