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'Rudy Giuliani and Paul Manafort?' Trump shocks with pledge to 'build monuments' to heroes

Donald Trump's latest out-of-nowhere promise for his second term as president raised eyebrows and prompted laughter. DJT" It's not clear what prompted the comment, but lawmakers from both parties vowed to fight back if he carried through on his campaign pledge to restore Confederate monuments, including the names of military bases, and social media users seemed to interpret his Truth …

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3 months ago

Mueller investigator says Russia interfered in 2016 — and in the 2024 election too

NPR

Mueller investigator says Russia interfered in 2016 — and in the 2024 election too Mueller deputy Aaron Zebley looks back on the investigation of Trump's ties to Russia and explains why his team didn’t indict the president in 2017. If you're just joining us, my guest is Aaron Zebley, one of the three members of Robert Mueller's team who wrote …

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4 months, 1 week ago

'Foreign Agents' explores the U.S. citizens lobbying for foreign governments

NPR

'Foreign Agents' explores the U.S. citizens lobbying for foreign governments DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. One of the things you write about is that companies that were representing foreign governments, particularly dictatorial foreign governments, where they could loot untold millions and maybe even billions from their own national treasuries, could pay money to the lobbying companies, and then …

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5 months ago

'Crime wave must end': RNC mocked after Paul Manafort spotted on convention floor

Raw Story

An unexpected face was seen on the floor of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday: Paul Manafort, the former chief of the 2016 Trump campaign who was convicted of conspiracy against the United States and served two years of combined prison and home confinement before former President Donald Trump pardoned him on his way out of office. "This crime wave …

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6 months ago

'Bonanza': Felon Paul Manafort likely to be rewarded for not flipping if Trump wins

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Trump ally Paul Manafort, who was convicted of multiple felonies during Trump's term in office, has several incentives to get the former president back in office. In an editorial for the New York Times, journalists Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins explain how Manafort is primed to cash in during a second Trump term. "Rather than drain the swamp, an unleashed …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Feds should declassify dirt on Manafort if Trump brings him back on campaign: Dem senator

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Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager who shared internal polling data to a suspected Russian intelligence asset back in 2016, is reportedly in the mix to rejoin Donald Trump's 2024 campaign despite being convicted in 2019 on charges ranging from tax fraud to witness tampering to conspiracy to defraud the United States. "After last week's news that convicted felon …

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9 months ago

'Absolutely radioactive' MAGA allies will drive away key voters: former Trump official

Raw Story

Former Trump White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin said that his reported desire to bring convicted felons such as Roger Stone and Paul Manafort back into the fold could hurt him with voters he desperately needs. Appearing on CNN, Griffin said Trump bringing back Manafort struck her as particularly problematic. "What Donald Trump needs to win, he needs Nikki Haley …

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9 months ago

'Full-circle corruption': Morning Joe panel speculates how Trump will get bailed out

Raw Story

Donald Trump is reportedly considering convicted felon Paul Manafort for a role in his 2024 campaign, despite his fraud convictions and questionable foreign entanglements. The former president has discussed a fundraising role for Manafort, whom he pardoned in his final weeks in office along with Roger Stone and Jared Kushner's father, and former White House director of communications Jen Palmieri …

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9 months ago

'Troll aimed at liberals': Columnist spells out Trump's message in bringing Manafort back

Raw Story

Three years after Donald Trump pardoned his campaign manager Paul Manafort from a 43-month prison sentence for "tax and bank fraud in 2018 under Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election," The Washington Post reported Monday that the MAGA hopeful is planning to hire him back for the 2024 campaign. According to the report, four anonymous sources …

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9 months ago

Maddow wonders 'why today of all days is the day we learn' about Paul Manafort

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Amid Donald Trump's ongoing public allyship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, The Washington Post reported Monday that the MAGA hopeful is eyeing the possibility of bringing back former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to join the ex-president's 2024 campaign team. The former Trump campaign manager would "likely focus on the Republican convention in July and on fundraising for Trump’s campaign," …

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9 months ago

Why Trump’s $464M bond failure could make him a ‘massive national security risk’

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National security, legal, and political experts are lining up to sound the alarm about the potential national security risks swirling around Donald Trump, and those warnings are getting stronger. “'The Committee found that Manafort’s presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump campaign,' …

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9 months ago

Trump looking to add convicted felon to his campaign team: sources

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Donald Trump intends to give his disgraced former campaign manager Paul Manafort a role in his 2024 re-election campaign. Four sources familiar with the discussions told the Washington Post that the former president has talked about enlisting Manafort, who was convicted of tax and bank fraud but later pardoned by Trump, to play a role centered around the Republican convention …

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1 year, 3 months ago

How much damage has the Trump-Putin collusion inflicted on the US?

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If Trump shared American secrets with Putin, our intelligence agencies are not going to call a press conference to let us all know. “For instance, the President attempted to remove the Attorney General; he sought to have Attorney General Sessions un-recuse himself and limit the investigation; he sought to prevent public disclosure of information about the June 9, 2016 meeting …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Ex-US President Donald Trump reaches New York amid tight security for court surrender

Hindustan Times

Former US President Donald Trump flew into New York City on his private plane on Monday to face charges stemming from a probe into hush money paid to a porn star, while his lawyers argued against letting cameras in the courtroom. Blanche previously represented Paul Manafort, Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, when Manafort was hit with New York state fraud charges …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Reporter walks through Russia's scheme to target Ukraine along with Donald Trump's help

Raw Story

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace dedicated her Boxing Day show to the shocking revelations from this year that Russia's Vladimir Putin was working with Donald Trump's allies because he thought he could take pieces of eastern Ukraine, specifically Mariupol, without waging his invasion. Writing before the mid-term election, New York Times reporter Jim Rutenberg explained that hundreds of documents he's sifted through, …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Inside Trump's 'cult of criminality'

Raw Story

On Thursday's edition of MSNBC's "All In," anchor Chris Hayes marked the guilty plea of former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg with a list of all the major Trump allies who have similarly found themselves pleading to or being convicted of crimes. Among those in Trump's orbit convicted of crimes Hayes listed off, included his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Paul Manafort admits sharing info with the Russians during 2016 Trump campaign

Raw Story

In an interview with Business Insider, former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort admitted he was in contact with the Russians and sharing information during the former president's 2016 presidential run. For years, questions have been raised about Russian involvement in the campaign that saw the New York businessman beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Manafort is now …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Paul Manafort covertly advised Trump in 2020 -- and kept it secret in the hopes he'd get pardoned

Raw Story

Paul Manafort, the scandal-plagued convicted felon who spent several months running Donald Trump's first presidential campaign in 2016, has written a new memoir in which he claims he informally advised Trump's campaign. However, Manafort says he made sure to keep it a secret because revelations about his role in the campaign would surely cause a scandal and potentially jeopardize his …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Trump pardoned Paul Manafort — but Biden’s DOJ just sued him for $3 million: report

Raw Story

The breadth of former President Donald Trump's pardon of Paul Manafort will be put to the test after the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit arguing that penalties beyond prison are not covered. "The Justice Department is suing Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, for almost $3 million in penalties related to his alleged failure to file reports disclosing …

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2 years, 8 months ago

US court rejects Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's attempt to bypass sanctions

The Independent

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2 years, 9 months ago

Paul Manafort removed from Dubai-bound flight out of Miami

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Paul Manafort was removed from a plane in Florida before departing for Dubai because he was carrying a passport that had been revoked. Miami-Dade police confirmed the pardoned former Donald Trump adviser had been taken off an Emirates Airline flight without incident Sunday night, The Associated Press reported, but U.S. Border and Customs Protection did not immediately respond to a …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Trump aide Manafort removed from plane for revoked passport

Associated Press

MIAMI — Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport, officials said Wednesday. Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta confirmed that Manafort was removed from the Emirates Airline flight without incident Sunday night but directed further questions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Let’s recall what exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani were doing in Ukraine

Raw Story

Though Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is just days old, Russia has been working for years to influence and undermine the independence of its smaller neighbor. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on Trump and Russia said Konstantin Kilimnik was both “a Russian intelligence officer” and “an integral part of Manafort’s operations in Ukraine and Russia.” Kilimnik has denied he is …

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3 years, 8 months ago

US says Russia was given Trump campaign polling data in 2016

Hindustan Times

It was one of the more tantalising, yet unresolved, questions of the investigation into possible connections between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign: Why was a business associate of campaign chairman Paul Manafort given internal polling data — and what did he do with it? A Treasury Department statement Thursday offered a potentially significant clue, asserting that Konstantin Kilimnik, …

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'Rudy Giuliani and Paul Manafort?' Trump shocks with pledge to 'build monuments' to heroes

Mueller investigator says Russia interfered in 2016 — and in the 2024 election too

'Foreign Agents' explores the U.S. citizens lobbying for foreign governments

'Crime wave must end': RNC mocked after Paul Manafort spotted on convention floor

'Bonanza': Felon Paul Manafort likely to be rewarded for not flipping if Trump wins

Feds should declassify dirt on Manafort if Trump brings him back on campaign: Dem senator

'Absolutely radioactive' MAGA allies will drive away key voters: former Trump official

'Full-circle corruption': Morning Joe panel speculates how Trump will get bailed out

'Troll aimed at liberals': Columnist spells out Trump's message in bringing Manafort back

Maddow wonders 'why today of all days is the day we learn' about Paul Manafort

Why Trump’s $464M bond failure could make him a ‘massive national security risk’

Trump looking to add convicted felon to his campaign team: sources

How much damage has the Trump-Putin collusion inflicted on the US?

Ex-US President Donald Trump reaches New York amid tight security for court surrender

Reporter walks through Russia's scheme to target Ukraine along with Donald Trump's help

Inside Trump's 'cult of criminality'

Paul Manafort admits sharing info with the Russians during 2016 Trump campaign

Paul Manafort covertly advised Trump in 2020 -- and kept it secret in the hopes he'd get pardoned

Trump pardoned Paul Manafort — but Biden’s DOJ just sued him for $3 million: report

US court rejects Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's attempt to bypass sanctions

Paul Manafort removed from Dubai-bound flight out of Miami

Trump aide Manafort removed from plane for revoked passport

Let’s recall what exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani were doing in Ukraine

US says Russia was given Trump campaign polling data in 2016