NEW: MANAFORT & GATES didn't merely help elect the Russia-aligned Ukrainian president YANUKOVYCH. They were paid $4M/year through a "policy contract" to help him govern, including helping him enact ”campaign promises.” https://t.co/NCtf1rLxVA
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) August 7, 2018
#BREAKING: As part of his testimony again Paul Manafort, Rick Gates told the court today that Manafort recommended his banker Stephen Calk for a job in the Trump White House (Secretary of the Army?!).
Calk's bank loaned Manafort $16 million.
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) August 7, 2018
So, as more pours out of little Rick Gates, I have some reminders for you:
1. Paul Manafort's old, close friend is Tom Barrack.
2. Tom Barrack ran Trump's inaugural committee, from which millions are unaccounted. https://t.co/8FEYw1l8NW
(cont)— Stephanie "LB" 🟧 (@LincolnsBible) August 7, 2018
Rick Gates Fondly Recalls Manafort Finding Him As Hapless Street Urchin And Teaching Him How To Pickpocket https://t.co/mM5TOY0Hlv pic.twitter.com/fSzHhFywaB
— The Onion (@TheOnion) August 7, 2018
Manafort my be the most corrupt political operative that America has ever seen, but he comes from a long line of corrupt American political operatives and elected politicians.
Most of these slithering snakes are allowed to operate by the people that they do business with, our government, and by the press who do not report on their activities.
Likewise the US Justice Department rarely brings them before the bar of justice even though the FBI, IRS and others are fully aware of what they are up to.
Why do you suppose that is?
Why does our government overlook, for example, assassinations perpetrated by our so-called “friends?”
Over the weekend the Israelis sent a Mossad assassination team to kill a “perceived” enemy.
A Zionist hit squad set off an explosion that killed Syrian scientist Aziz Asbar, in Masyaf, Syria.
And nobody said a word. Not Trump. Not a single Democrat. Not Nikki Haley. Not a single Republican. Nobody.
That silence is just flat wrong and immoral.