{"id":6055,"date":"2017-11-01T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlecharbinger.wordpress.com\/?p=6055"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:25:43","slug":"this-is-paul-manafort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mlecharbinger.org\/?p=6055","title":{"rendered":"This is Paul Manafort"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rozany Guzman<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Manafort, an American lawyer and former campaign chairman of Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, was found in a deep situation when Robert S. Mueller revealed charges against him and two other former Trump campaign officials. <\/span><\/p>\n

Manafort and his long-standing business partner Rick Gates were charged with a 12-count indictment with making false statements and violating lobbying, tax, and banking laws in an attempt to launder more than $75 million from Ukrainian politics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Manafort, Mr. Gates and others have earned great sums from working for politically consulting clients tainted by corruption or authoritarianism or clients with opposing interests to those of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

So far, for most of this decade, Mr. Manafort has focused on Ukraine with political figures such as Viktor F. Yanukovych and later consulted a Russia-friendly party called Opposition Bloc. He then allegedly used that money gained to take out loans on properties. He now seems to have used at least some of that money to try to save real estate investments by his son-in-law Jeffrey Yohai.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Manafort then promised to work for Trump for free, as he promised in a memo delivered by Mr. Barrack. He used his international work to his advantage and used his twenty-year absence from American politics as proof that he won\u2019t bring \u201cWashington baggage\u201d to his campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was included in Trump\u2019s campaign by the end of March and was promoted to campaign chairman and strategist in May. Once promoted, he brought in some former associates to take over senior roles, some of them having experience working in Ukraine or other former Soviet states. Under Manafort\u2019s management, Trump had rallied much of the Republican party and mapped out a strategy to get to the White House. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren't Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n