RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT

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Andy Borowitz
2 hrs ·


Papadopoulos Says He Never Got Coffee for Anyone Because He Was Too Busy Doing Russian Stuff

goin full :kushface: till the indictments drop-a-dopalus

 

[WaveMolecules]

Lemme say this tho...Jake Tapper...I got my eye on you

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

goin full :kushface: till the indictments drop-a-dopalus

bruh tidy that up...thats not getting any play in this thread

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Lighting her ass up in the comments.

yeah....that "like to reply ratio"

 

[88m3]

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purity politics and lack of reading comprehension skills> liberal and progressive policies

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

purity politics and lack of reading comprehension skills> liberal and progressive policies

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

This broad seriously need to stfu.. bytch hasn’t said a word in over a year and now she wants to yap.. nobody ain’t trying to hear that shyt she talkin

Theres an election in 4 days. In a way, I'm not surprised considering how she ran the DNC in the first place. All of this is her fault.

 

[Blackfyre]

:50centscust::confusedjagfan:

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Yeah...safe to say she's trolling at this point.

 

[88m3]

The Hill
Just now ·
"I hope he’s treating everything fairly and if he is I’m going to be very happy because when you talk about innocent, I am truly not involved in any form of collusion with Russia," President Trump said about special counsel Robert Mueller.


Trump: I'll be proven innocent if Mueller treats 'everything fairly'
President Donald Trump says that he is confident he'll be proven innocent in the Russia election meddling investigation if special counsel Robert Mueller treats…
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smh

 

[88m3]

Bloomberg
24 mins ·
He says the documents were about Manafort receiving a $750,000 payment via Kyrgyzstan.


Ukraine Lawmaker Says He Gave FBI Information on Manafort
A Ukrainian opposition politician who helped uncover off-the-books payments allegedly made to former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort says…
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VICE News
45 mins ·
Scott Pruitt just picked a bunch of oil and gas reps to advise the EPA.


Modern air is “too clean,” according to new EPA adviser
Oil and gas industry reps who question the validity of climate change will be advising the EPA on policy for the foreseeable future.
NEWS.VICE.COM



smfh

 

[Piff Perkins]

The 2016 election already proved this. White voters love that shyt, it is what it is.

Was reading that the dem in VA is having trouble motivating Hispanic voters. If you're Hispanic in the fukking south in 2017, 10 months into Trump's presidency and aren't "motivated" to vote you fukking lost at life.


this dude running against a candidate who is winking at racists and you're on the fence/can't decide/dunno if I'll vote/etc? Nah fam.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Bloomberg
24 mins ·
He says the documents were about Manafort receiving a $750,000 payment via Kyrgyzstan.


Ukraine Lawmaker Says He Gave FBI Information on Manafort
A Ukrainian opposition politician who helped uncover off-the-books payments allegedly made to former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort says…
BLOOMBERG.COM

Oh the ledger

GET REKT PUTIN

Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief





Paul Manafort is finally facing justice — and we Ukrainians couldn’t be happier

Ukrainian journalist and member of parliament Serhiy Leshchenko holds documents detailing Paul Manafort’s financial ties in the country. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)
Serhiy Leshchenko is a Ukrainian journalist and lawmaker.

In February 2014, as Ukrainian protesters were massing in the streets against their government, a fire broke out in the headquarters of the Party of Regions, the ruling political movement of then-President Viktor Yanukovych. Documents later came to light in the ruins that showed hundreds of pages of handwritten payments adding up to billions of dollars. Among the thousands of names of Ukrainian officials, politicians and journalists that cropped up in the documents, there was one that none of us knew at the time: Paul Manafort. He helped bring Viktor Yanukovych to power in Ukraine and later did the same for Donald Trump.

A little over a year ago, long after the Yanukovych government had collapsed in disgrace, I published copies of pages from those ledgers showing that Manafort had received $12.7 million in cash. Some people reacted with skepticism. They said that no one would ever be able to prove anything conclusively and that the story would die. Yet this week, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III indicted Manafort with conspiracy against the United States, tax evasion and money laundering — all charges directly based on Manafort’s work in Ukraine.

During his career as a political consultant, Manafort served some of the world’s most repugnant leaders, in countries from the Philippines to Congo. One can assume, though, that no one ever offered him quite as much in fees as Yanukovych did. Yanukovych, after all, was a man with a fake education and two convictions for criminal offenses, and he enjoyed the backing of the country’s most powerful (and widely hated) oligarchs.

Yet Manafort found a way. Putting his talent to work, he first made Yanukovych prime minister, then president. They stayed together for four electoral cycles. As their partnership continued, Yanukovych became increasingly authoritarian, censoring journalists and ultimately even throwing opposition leaders in jail. Corruption, always a plague in our country, deepened to a horrifying degree. (Somehow, despite his modest salary as a civil servant, he managed to buy himself a huge mansion on an immense parcel of land on the outskirts of Kiev.) To clean up his client’s reputation, Paul Manafort drew on his connections in Washington, hiring big names from the lobbying world, such as Tony Podesta, Vin Weber and Gregory Craig.

To prevent them from being linked too openly with Yanukovych, Manafort paid them indirectly, through a fake public organization created in Brussels by associates of the president. Since Yanukovych earned his money from corruption, the cash Manafort’s clients received effectively came from Ukrainian taxpayers. The money paid not only for their sky-high fees, but also for business jets and month-long stays in the Kiev Hyatt, the country’s priciest hotel.

Paul Manafort decided that the best way to keep his client in power was by exacerbating Ukrainians’ divisions. The Yanukovych government correspondingly played up claims that the Russian language (which is spoken by many Ukrainians) had been suppressed by the administration’s predecessors. Meanwhile, the government also allowed for the registration of the ultranationalist Freedom party. The aim of all this was to polarize society and to make Russian speakers feel besieged and discriminated against by internal enemies so they could look to Yanukovych as their savior. Sound familiar?

Ukraine paid a high price for Manafort’s experiments. His divisive approach deepened the fault lines in society and eroded our unity. The corruption fueled by his regime weakened our capacity for national defense. All this helped make my country an easy victim when Russia moved to annex Crimea in 2014 and seized part of our territory in the east.

Today, the Manafort-related news from the United States is making the largest oligarchic clans in Ukraine nervous. These people – Rinat Akhmetov, Dmitry Firtash and Sergey Levochkin — are among the richest people in the country. They advised Yanukovych to hire Manafort. It was they who used Manafort’s experience and connections to rehabilitate Yanukovych’s reputation in the United States; Firtash even teamed up with Manafort and another oligarch to try to buy the Drake Hotel in New York for $850 million. They also happen to have close ties to some of the most powerful people in Moscow, including Putin insiders such as Vladislav Surkov and Igor Sechin.

The current president, Petro Poroshenko, is keen to avoid irritating the Trump administration, so he has tried to avoid dwelling on Manafort’s past sins. Even so, some determined investigators have continued to dig. One case involves former Minister of Justice Alexander Lavrynovych. In 2013, he paid $1 million to the U.S. law firm Skadden Arps, which drew up a report, at Manafort’s urging, defending the Yanukovych administration against claims that it was persecuting its political opponents. (Many outside observers disagreed.)

After the 2014 revolution, activists found papers showing that Manafort had suggested and orchestrated the entire effort to whitewash Ukraine’s reputation. For the past two years, Ukrainian investigators have sent a number of requests to the U.S. Department of Justice to ask Manafort and Gregory Craig, Skadden’s lead lawyer, for information about the case. So far they’ve received little help.

It is the taxpayers of Ukraine who ended up paying the price for the services of Yanukovych’s champion political fixer. But Ukraine will never have full answers to the many remaining questions about Yanukovych’s network of corruption without information from Paul Manafort. While we understand the huge potential consequences of the current investigation for America’s own political system, we, too, would be grateful for the help of the FBI.

That Manafort is now being brought to account for his actions offers hope not just to Ukrainians, but to other transitional democracies around the world. America’s political mercenaries clearly feel little sense of responsibility for the ills they perpetuate in other parts of the world. Perhaps now that will start to change.





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Was reading that the dem in VA is having trouble motivating Hispanic voters. If you're Hispanic in the fukking south in 2017, 10 months into Trump's presidency and aren't "motivated" to vote you fukking lost at life.


this dude running against a candidate who is winking at racists and you're on the fence/can't decide/dunno if I'll vote/etc? Nah fam.

This is precisely why I don't tolerate DNC or Hillary Clinton slander beyond a certain limit.

THESE ARE REPUBLICANS.

Dudes gotta realize what we're dealing with.

This ain't idyllic Europe or some shyt.

This is real.

 

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bruh tidy that up...thats not getting any play in this thread

thats on you my g,

it's my court, you're just playing pick up on it