Trump, Allies Brushed Off The Manafort Charges. Then A New Case Dropped.
Source: Talking Points Memo
By NICOLE LAFOND Published OCTOBER 30, 2017 12:20 PM
President Donald Trump and members of his inner circle on Monday were quick to distance the President from news that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had surrendered to the FBI for charges related to money laundering, among other alleged offenses.
Those efforts to disassociate the President from the first arrests of special counsel Robert Muellers probe quickly proved futile.
Just minutes after the President sounded off on Twitter to say the Manafort charges had nothing to do with him, and Trumps former campaign manager defended him on television, court documents from a separate case were unsealed. Those documents revealed that a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser had pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.
Just before 10:30 a.m. ET, Trump tweeted that the charges against Manafort stem from alleged bad deeds that occurred years ago and were therefore not the Presidents problem. The indictment against Manafort indicates the alleged misconduct spanned from 2006 to 2017.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-allies-brush-manafort-new-case-drops
Berlin Expat
(950 posts)is that Papadopolous has apparently turned state's evidence.
He's singing like a canary, to use the old adage. I'd imagine some folks (I'm looking at you, Donnie, Jr., and Kushner too) are sweating bullets right about now.
maryellen99
(3,789 posts)TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)Dr. Jack
(675 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)(sarcasm, of course).
dalton99a
(81,576 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)with another investigation and the whole uranium and dossier kick they have been on because someone probably informed Donald about the foreign policy adviser pleading guilty and they are in a high panic mode and afraid even more stuff will be discovered so they are hoping to get the media to use Hillary as a smokescreen to cover for them.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)eggplant
(3,913 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)of obeying the rules of proper grammar lol
GusBob
(7,286 posts)eom
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)"bad deeds that occurred 'years ago'?"
I don't think so.
K&R, thanks for posting, DonViejo
calimary
(81,466 posts)Indescribably DELICIOUS!!!
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)DISCLAIMER: I'm too young to remember Nixon.
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fierywoman
(7,694 posts)I had an Impeach Nixon bumper sticker on my yellow VW Bug and I worked that summer as a waitress in a country club on Long Island that Nixon's buddy Beebee Rebozo was a member of. Oh, how I remember!
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Yesssss
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Bwahahahahahahaha