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Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past, these people said.
“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time.
There is no evidence in the documents showing that Deripaska received Manafort’s offer or that any briefings took place. And a spokeswoman for Deripaska dismissed the email exchanges as scheming by “consultants in the notorious ‘beltway bandit’ industry.”
originally posted by: xuenchen
Now another "new one" coming out about Paul Manafort.
This one is from the Washington Post who got the scuttlebutt from ""according to people familiar with the discussions"", and of course ""these people said"".
And it puts an email from Manafort allegedly telling somebody from a Russian company that private briefings can be arranged in regards to the Trump Campaign !!
Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign
Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past, these people said.
“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time.
The punchline in the WP article:
There is no evidence in the documents showing that Deripaska received Manafort’s offer or that any briefings took place. And a spokeswoman for Deripaska dismissed the email exchanges as scheming by “consultants in the notorious ‘beltway bandit’ industry.”
originally posted by: Grambler
More leaks from the investigation. Absolutely ridiculous.
However, I will neither believe nor dismiss this claim. Until I see proof, I am not convinced.
But if this is true, manafort may be in trouble.
originally posted by: RickyD
I would be interested in seeing what statute this would fall under. I hear all these calls of crime but no one ever includes what law was actually broken. What is the penalty? Is it a felony or misdemeanor?
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: xuenchen
Oleg Deripaska is hardly a random "somebody from a Russian company." He's a billionaire Russian oligarch with strong ties to Putin and to Manafort. And for extra CT bonus points, the Rothschilds. Why do you put this in Deconstruction Disinformation when you're not... deconstructing disinformation?
More leaks from the investigation. Absolutely ridiculous.
However, I will neither believe nor dismiss this claim. Until I see proof, I am not convinced.
But if this is true, manafort may be in trouble.
Just playing devils advocate here. Since Mueller only seems to have the hots for Manafort and is applying the screws to him, what's to stop Trump from just pardoning him?
They aren't going to charge him with anything super bad. It's not like Mueller seems to have a case against anyone else.