In his financial/ legal/ political desperation, the unscrupulous Malignant Loser is eyeing convicted felon and Russian cutout Paul Manafort to help with "campaign fundraising":
Former President Donald Trump’s team is in discussions with Paul Manafort, his 2016 campaign chairman whom he later pardoned, to potentially help with the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, three sources familiar with the ongoing conversations told CNN.
Manafort, who was one of several individuals who ran Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was pardoned by Trump after being found guilty of several financial crimes in 2018.
One source indicated that Manafort would be helping with fundraising around the July convention but noted that no final decisions had been made.
You might recall those impressive financial crimes and his treasonous resume:
Manafort spent close to two years of a 7.5-year sentence in prison for bank and tax fraud, illegal foreign lobbying and witness tampering conspiracies before being released in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, spending the remainder of his sentence under home confinement prior to his pardon.
The former Trump campaign staffer was found to have committed financial fraud in 2019. Those convictions were obtained by special counsel Robert Mueller as he investigated Manafort’s alleged collusion with the Russian government in 2016 – though Manafort’s crimes did not relate directly to his work as Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman.
As part of his plea deal with Mueller’s team, he agreed to cooperate with the prosecutors on the then-special counsel’s team – before lying during those interview sessions...
No repetition of “Russia, Russia, Russia!” obscures the bipartisan, *GOP-led* Senate Intel Committee report, pg 943: Manafort strategized with and gave campaign info to a Russian agent during ongoing interference operations in the 2016 campaign. [snip]
“These are stubborn facts that cannot be ignored.”
Manafort was a key part of Trump’s willing acceptance of a foreign adversary’s assault on the United States, “in exchange for advancing their own self-interest.” [snip]“This is what collusion looks like.” - Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Russian Active Measures Campaign, chaired by @SenMarcoRubio
(We're not holding our breath waiting for windsock gusano Li'l Marco to comment on Manafort helping with "fundraising" for his cult leader.)
Since fundraising for the Christofascist Republican MAGA cult means fundraising for the Malignant Loser's defense fund, Manafort is well- positioned to get Russian dark money into the Malignant Loser's desperate hands. Our intelligence services should be keeping a close eye on this self- serving traitor (well, both of them).
(Photo: trusted fraud Manafort arriving in cuffs for his arraignment in 2019 / Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
