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Paul Manafort Charged With Conspiracy Against the US: 3 Things You Need to Know
If American justice were a movie, the arrest Monday of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates would be that big courtroom scene right before the credits. The camera would pan back to some well-dressed international villain, pulled from the Smug British Actor of the Month Club, in an empty…
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The Lowlights From the White House’s ‘How to Get Away With Conspiracy Against the US’ Playbook
What is this sweet scent of manure wafting in the afternoon air? Ahhh, yes! The White House press briefing. And what a show of fecal spray it was today. On a day when Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, Manafort’s right-hand man, surrendered to authorities after a federal grand jury indicted…
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Paul Manafort, Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman, Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiracy Against the United States
Updated Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, 2:38 p.m. EDT: President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Manafort’s business associate Rick Gate have both pleaded not guilty following their arrest on several felonies, including conspiracy against the United States. According to the Los Angeles Times, Manafort and Gates both appeared before a federal judge Monday…
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George Papadopoulos, Former Trump Campaign Aide, Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI During Russia Investigation
Another one bites the dust. More specifically, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopolous is actually just taking the L, apparently, and has pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents during their investigation into possible Russian interference in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections. The Associated Press tweeted out the news, citing court papers.…
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Paul Manafort Offered to Give Private Briefings on Presidential Election to a Billionaire Russian Oligarch: Report
On July 7, 2016, less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his then-campaign manager Paul Manafort wrote an email to a Russian billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin and offered to provide him with briefings on the presidential race. Portions of the email written by Manafort to aluminum magnate…
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Donald Trump Jr. Gives Up His Secret Service Protection as Mueller’s Russia Investigation Intensifies
When you are the adult son of a sitting president, you are entitled to protection by the Secret Service for as long as your parent is in office. Donald Trump Jr., our president’s oldest son, has decided he no longer wants that protection, according to multiple reports published Monday evening. The younger Trump is an…
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Robert Mueller Ain’t Playing: Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort’s Home Raided by the FBI
America’s last hope for a presidential do-over is being led by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, and he’s not playing: FBI agents raided the home of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, last month. Manafort, as you may remember, was one of the first in Trump’s administration to go down for possible…
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Trump’s Ex-Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Is Going to Snitch
Donald Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort, aka Fumbleruski, aka Big Daddy Butt Chin, aka “I’m in a pee-stained Russian bed,” has been subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence Committee and is expected to appear at the hearing Wednesday. Manafort, whose name seems to come up so much in this administration’s Russia probe that I assumed he was…
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Trump Jr. Just Confirmed That Russia Is, in Fact, the USA’s Play Cousin
If President Vladimir TrumPutin supporters want to know why the media keeps talking about TrumPutin’s connection to Russia, it’s because the president has connections to Russia. According to the New York Times, in June 2016, Donald Trump Jr., aka Not-Ivanka; Jared “Got Dem Visas” Kushner; and disgraced American Paul Manafort all met with a “Kremlin-connected…
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FBI Raids GOP and Tea Party Consulting Firm in Md. With Ties to Key Trump Advisers
Wearing plainclothes and bearing a search warrant Thursday morning, FBI agents raided GOP consulting firm Strategic Campaign Group in Annapolis, Md. The firm has close ties to two key Trump advisers: former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone. Dennis Whitfield, a senior adviser at Strategic Campaign Group, is also a…