TRUMP ASSOCIATE PAUL MANAFORT 'CHANGED HIS STORY COMPLETELY' TO PROTECT SUSPECTED MEMBER OF RUSSIAN

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TRUMP ASSOCIATE PAUL MANAFORT ‘CHANGED HIS STORY COMPLETELY’ TO PROTECT SUSPECTED MEMBER OF RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE, PROSECUTORS SAY

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-paul-manafort-changed-story-protect-suspected-russian-intelligence-1324368

President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort lied repeatedly to conceal the nature of his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik, a man with suspected ties to Russian intelligence agencies, prosecutors allege.

In a partially redacted transcript of a hearing that took place Monday, February 4, prosecutors told the judge that Manafort had continued working with Kilimnik on issues related to Ukraine until 2018, even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller had indicted the longtime Republican political consultant.

The special counsel’s office is working to determine whether members of the Trump campaign collaborated with the Russian government to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential elections. Manafort’s longstanding partnership with Kilimnik, who was once in the Russian military, goes “to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating,” prosecutors told the court.

Prosecutors also argued that it was unusual for someone working on a presidential campaign to maintain such a close working relationship with someone tied to Russian intelligence. The court documents revealed that Kilimnik was in Washington during Trump's inauguration.

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[diva77]

1. K&R for exposure

[SidDithers]

2. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, is he...nt

Sid

[Recursion]

3. He's under the gun: he needs to pay back Deripaska the money he stole

That means he's willing to take a lot of risks

[uponit7771]

6. No doubt the Russians (including Trump) has threatened his family

[Vinnie From Indy]

9. That is the part of the story that isn't told very often

Manafort was a hunted man prior to joining Trump's campaign. Deripaska is not a man to owe millions to and not pay. Working with Trump's campaign offered potential salvation for Manafort.

[Leghorn21]

4. Repeatedly, over and over, time and again, day after day and hour after hour

Paul Manafort LIED

well how about that

yeah, just fuck off,

[uponit7771]

5. traitors, the lot of them ... traitors

[gratuitous]

7. I wonder, Paul: Is this how you envisioned it all ending?

You're going to be 70 on April 1, no fooling. Is this how you thought your career was going to end? Sitting in prison, waiting for the next swing of the million pound shithammer, and wondering if any of the loot you've stolen over the years will be left for your surviving family. And that's not even the worst of it.

Oh no, because now that you've gotten a sensitive body part caught in the wringer, you know that you're going to have a great deal of trouble meeting your obligations to some very shady people. Not the kind of people who are going to shine on for six months while you come up with a plan to pay them off. No, these are more the kind of people who kidnap a loved one and send you a severed finger every week. Or send some big goon in the big house to have a chat with you. Spoiler alert: Your end of the conversation will be mostly "Ow! Ow! My head!" At least until consciousness graciously slips away.

Have a nice day, Paul.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Ouch.

[OnDoutside]

8. So Manafort is willing to end his life in jail to save Kilimnik, who is out of US reach in Russia.

I find that odd.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Manafort may decide that (U.S.) prison is the safest place...and then maybe pardons down the road.

[SeattleVet]

11. Put him and Donnie Two Scoops into the "Witless Protection Program".

Or, at the very least, the "Scared Shitless Protection Program".

As someone recently said, they were either colluding wittingly, unwittingly, or half-wittingly.

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. Good ones.