Mastodawn

Laffy May 11, 2024

“Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican strategist and chairman of Trump’s 2016 campaign, who had assumed unpaid role advising party officials on the nominating convention, has stepped aside.

Manafort’s move came after NYT reported that he had been on the ground in Milwaukee last week for planning meetings for the convention, as well as a Washington Post story that said he was involved in work connected to foreign officials and businesses.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/politics/trump-manafort-republican-convention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE0.ecYJ.pg_Jx-2lD-6V&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Amid Scrutiny, Paul Manafort Leaves Republican Convention Role

Eight years after helping Donald J. Trump get elected — and four years after being released from prison — the longtime political operative was back as a volunteer to advise the G.O.P. convention.

The New York Times

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Nicole Parsons

@GottaLaff

Manafort brings in the Russian money via complicit straw donors, particularly via the hedge fund managers.

Ken Griffin. Steve Schwarzman. Paul Singer. Jeffrey Yass. Oleg Deripaska.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/18/2230151/-Paul-Manafort-returning-to-the-RNC-and-The-Great-Gasbag-to-open-a-housewares-store-in-Hungary

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/15/paul-manafort-fbi-trump-239573

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-manafort-american-hustler/550925/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fbi-probe-of-paul-manafort-focuses-on-13-suspicious-wire

https://amp.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/article186102003.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/manafort-magnitsky-browder-1.4385860

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/manafort-had-60m-relationship-russian-oligarch-n810541

Paul Manafort returning to the RNC, bringing the Trump-Russia band back togther

Same-old, same-old, complete with ostrich jackets and former GRU business associates. The band is back together, along with Russian a$$ets. Trump forgets that it was only after he fired Manafort as campaign manager and brought on Steve Bannon, among...

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Artemesia May 11, 2024

@Npars01 @GottaLaff

Brought in, not brings in. None of your cites refer to current russian money being routed through manafort. Which is probably the main reason he was given the boot.