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HERE THEY ARE: The Manafort sentencing documents (Original Post) pnwmom Feb 2019 OP
Seth Abramson is starting to break it down on twitter. Grasswire2 Feb 2019 #1
and 13/ lamp_shade Feb 2019 #2
sensible nt Grasswire2 Feb 2019 #3
This looks pretty BIG to me. triron Feb 2019 #4
eek nt Grasswire2 Feb 2019 #5
"fear of a Clinton presidency" Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2019 #11
Simpletons Think Being Bold is a Good Thing fascisthunter Feb 2019 #6
This Delphinus Feb 2019 #7
Since nobody else posted it, here's the unrolled version. eggplant Feb 2019 #8
thanks! Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2019 #10
Soulless and deceptive. Anything for money. He has sold out his country over and over again. The Wielding Truth Feb 2019 #9

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
1. Seth Abramson is starting to break it down on twitter.
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 03:46 PM
Feb 2019

He notes that he hadn't realized that Manafort had been a lobbyist for Saudi Arabia from 1984-86.


Seth Abramson
?Verified account @SethAbramson
5m5 minutes ago

5/ No big deal—Manafort was only involved in lobbying related to *arms deals with Saudi Arabia* (which certainly wasn't a clandestine issue during the 2016 campaign, as Saudi Arabia hoped for nuclear tech from a prospective Trump administration and colluded with him to get it):

lamp_shade

(14,836 posts)
2. and 13/
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 04:10 PM
Feb 2019

13/ If I had much work yet to do; if I trusted DOJ to handle my final report (whenever it comes) responsibly; if disclosing more info on Manafort would endanger sources or methods; if I didn't want future defendants to get a jump on what's coming—I would do what Mueller did here.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,349 posts)
11. "fear of a Clinton presidency"
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 08:17 PM
Feb 2019


40/ The attachments confirm it: Manafort was working for Kremlin interests lobbying the US government as that very government was putting sanctions on the Kremlin—*the* key political issue that Putin's fear of a Clinton presidency and promotion of a Trump presidency was based on.
41/ The sanctions discussed here are potential pre-annexation U.S. sanctions relating (in 2013) to an entirely different issue (stemming from the actions of pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politicians), but it's still fascinating to see Manafort working directly on fighting U.S. sanctions.

 

fascisthunter

(29,381 posts)
6. Simpletons Think Being Bold is a Good Thing
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 05:09 PM
Feb 2019

Hitler was bold too. Dumb people fall for this weakness all the time.

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
9. Soulless and deceptive. Anything for money. He has sold out his country over and over again.
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 06:15 PM
Feb 2019

Just like Donald J. Trump and anyone who claims him as a friend.

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