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"President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests."
Full story from AP, the original source:
http://bigstory.ap.org/122ae0b58…- The failing AP?monospaced
- A big point lost in all this anti-Russia hysteria is after the fall of the Soviet Union businesses flocked to and for Russia to compete in their emerging economIRNlun6
- yuri, your words, they make no sense againzaq
- I'm not yuri. How does my comment not make sense to you?IRNlun6
- Your comment seems to imply that Manafort was somehow involved in Putin taking advantage of the emerging economy politically to the tune of at least $750Kmonospaced
- In early 2000s, lobbying for Russian businesses wasn't frowned upon. Which undoubtedly benefit the Russian government including Putin at the time.IRNlun6
- lol holy shit you will excuse and ignore everything won't you?monospaced
- Business that benefits foreign gov is always scrutinized and often frowned upon and avoided. Also this was trumps campaign manager dude.monospaced
- It's like you're arguing that being a decade long business partner of Putin is okay in the us government.monospaced
- It's not an excuse. Lobbying for foreign businesses is shady but not illegal or uncommon. Guarantee you Dems had business interests in Russian as well.IRNlun6
- I guarantee there are no democrats in Trump's administration who had business interests with Russia going back decades.monospaced
- You still seem to think it's no big deal that there is a connection between the two men, in light of the accusations that they are connectedmonospaced
- He lobbied for Aluminum contracts. Of course he would present the contracts as a benefit to the Russian government.IRNlun6
- Why should this be looked differently from Democrat lobbyists working with Russia? Don't you think they presented contracts which benefited Putin's Government?IRNlun6
- Because they didn't get help winning a presidency for it.monospaced
- Senior Dems have been warning against finding any evidence for that allegation. So far, that's just not true.IRNlun6