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WAPO: Manafort offered to give Russians ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign

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super-heated plasma

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WAPO

Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past, these people said.

“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time.

The emails are among tens of thousands of documents that have been turned over to congressional investigators and Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team as they probe whether Trump associates coordinated with Russia as part of Moscow’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.
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So screwed.
 
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B-Dubs

No Scrubs
Manafort has got to be the single dumbest human being on the face of the Earth. I mean, in what fucking universe do you say something like that in an e-mail? At least do it over the phone so there's potentially no records to be dug up.
 
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Vegetable Lasagna

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Manafort? More like Manafortofcards.

The real question is... When does Manafort flee the U.S. and then coincidentally pass away from "natural" causes? And by "natural" I mean "Russian."
 
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VariantX

Member
He knows its coming. He just doesn't know when. I wouldn't be surprised if he looks 5-10 years older by the time they're finished with him.
 
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B-Dubs

No Scrubs
Nafai1123 said:
Offered to give private briefings about the campaign DURING the campaign? Lied about it. Yeah...he fucked.
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He offered it just before the RNC, which is where the agenda for the party is set. An agenda that was oddly pro-Russian for the GOP.
 
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Random Human

They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Get your cones ready

Starting to get why Mueller told this guy to expect an indictment.
 
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rambis

Banned
Fenderputty said:
Curious who "people familiar with discussions" means. It's worded so vaguely. Doesn't seem like an investigative leak.
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Its definitely from someone within the chain of custody, no?


The emails are among tens of thousands of documents that have been turned over to congressional investigators and Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team as they probe whether Trump associates coordinated with Russia as part of Moscow’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.
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BoogieWoogie

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So Paul offered to do this as campaign manager, to go to Russia and when Trump would ask where Manafort was, as his campaign manager, everyone would just go: "Paul has disappeared for several days!"??

Get the fuck outta here.
 
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Guy.brush

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Soon...
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gcubed

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This is amazing to watch unfold.

Still waiting for the Trump smoking gun, but going to be interesting to see in history books
 
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