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FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort’s home

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Kensation

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Need a timeline. Was this before they were reported on Kushner's forms? was this before or after he was raided? Was this before or after it was first reported in WaPo/NYT?

Edit: lol this thread is killing me right now with the flip gifs 😂
 
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habithipster said:
FaceApp changed the course of history.
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I've been thinking of Faceapp. It's made by a Russian company, and it's their first and only app.

In this crazy tinfoil hat world we live in, especially with their intentionally provocative racial skins.... I have to wonder if it's not a front for Russian Intelligence.

Seems like processing millions of selfies server-side would be beneficial to someone trying to create lots of fake profiles.
 
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Politico: Manafort switching legal team as feds crank up heat on him
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is changing his attorneys as a federal investigation heats up into his financial transactions, according to people familiar with the matter.

Manafort's case will now be handled by Miller and Chevalier, a boutique firm in Washington that specializes in complicated financial crimes among other issues, these people said.
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A spokesman confirmed the change. “Mr. Manafort is in the process of retaining his former counsel, Miller & Chevalier, to represent him in the office of special counsel investigation. As of today, WilmerHale no longer represents Mr. Manafort," Jason Maloni said in a statement.

Kevin Downing, a former senior Department of Justice official known for his work representing clients and firms facing complex financial investigations, will be working on the case, one of these people familiar with the matter said. Downing will have help from other lawyers also working on the case.
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KernelPanic said:
Might have something to do with this too:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/10/...ce-department-investigation-russia/index.html

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Probably has to do with the fact that Manafort's daughters may have dirt on their dad because they think he's a criminal with blood on his hands.
In a series of texts reviewed by Business Insider that appear to have been sent by Andrea to her sister, Jessica, in March 2015, Andrea said their father had "no moral or legal compass."

"Don't fool yourself," Andrea wrote to her sister, according to the texts. "That money we have is blood money."

"You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly," she continued, according to the reviewed texts. "As a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine. Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered."
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"He is a sick f---ing tyrant," Andrea appears to have said to Bond about her father. "And we keep showing up and dancing for him. ... We just keep showing up and eating the lobster. Nothing changes."
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It's a fucked situation.
 
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KernelPanic said:
Might have something to do with this too:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/10/...ce-department-investigation-russia/index.html

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Jorok Goldblade said:
When even your family wants to see you behind bars...
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Not really. More like Yohai was doing a bunch of sketchy deals with his father-in-law and has been under investigation as well.
Yohai has been under federal investigation for real estate deals he made with Manafort.
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Yohai : Manafort :: Kushner : Trump
 
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Why do I get the feeling Manafort will be the fall guy here and no one else?
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Nah. he's probably just the easiest to get because everyone is dumping on him because they WANT him to be the fall guy except every person that turns on him is also probably getting looked into because its an obviouse misdirection attempt by other guilty parties.
 
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ryutaro's mama said:
Why do I get the feeling Manafort will be the fall guy here and no one else?
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Trump will certainly try and get away with that.

He just spoke today about "Mr. Manafort" and how he was only "involved" in the campaign for a short while. Kinda leaves the impression that they barely knew each other, even though Manafort ended up running his Presidential campaign before being forced by his own dirty laundry to step down.

And now I find this article from NPR back in July of 2016:

NPR: Meet Paul Manafort, The Washington Insider Running Trump's Campaign

Those who know the 67-year-old Manafort give him high marks for his political skills. He helped Gerald Ford secure the 1976 nomination and later worked for Ronald Reagan. He was hired by Scott Reed, Bob Dole's campaign manager, to run the '96 convention. Reed notes Manafort has an apartment at Trump Tower in New York. But more importantly, he and Trump are peers.

Reed says Manafort is "the one person in the room that calls him Donald. It's not Mr. Trump. It's Donald. 'Come on, Donald; we've got to do the right thing here.'"

Reed says that's an important part of managing a campaign, to have a relationship with the candidate of trust. Reed says he believes Manafort "is bringing that and professionalizing the operation in a way that it needed."

Trump hired Manafort back in the '80s to lobby on gambling and real estate issues. And even though Riva Levinson had her disagreements with Manafort, she calls him "a master strategist," who can "hover above all of the moving parts, and intuitively he understands how to put them together."
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Uh huh.
 
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