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A purported cyber hack of the daughter of political consultant Paul Manafort suggests that he was the victim of a blackmail attempt while he was serving as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman last summer.
The undated communications, which are allegedly from the iPhone of Manafort’s daughter, include a text that appears to come from a Ukrainian parliamentarian named Serhiy Leshchenko, seeking to reach her father, in which he claims to have politically damaging information about both Manafort and Trump.
In a Tuesday interview, Manafort denied brokering a 2012 meeting between Trump and Tulub, also pointing out that he wasn’t working for Trump at the time.
However, Manafort did confirm the authenticity of the texts hacked from his daughter’s phone.
Manafort said that the first of the texts arrived shortly before The New York Times published an August expose revealing that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine had obtained documents — which have since come under scrutiny — that appeared to show $12.7 million in cash payments earmarked for Manafort.
Trump hired Manafort back in the '80s to lobby on gambling and real estate issues.
But a White House official questioned the chronology supporting the claim, explaining that Trump had not worked with Manafort before the 2016 campaign.
originally posted by: odzeandennz
The plot ...thins...
The incriminating of trump et al needs to stop and we need to focus on the country ffs.
Trump won.... move on.
Prepare for the next election cycle. The world stage have never been more observant of US politics. We look.. BAD
Washington (CNN) — If Donald Trump's campaign aides like Paul Manafort were contacting Russian officials during the campaign, then the President had nothing to do with it, claims former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
"If anybody crossed a line and gave information to a foreign agent or foreign government or foreign intelligence official, whether that's Paul Manafort or it's Rick Gates or anybody else, I hope they're held accountable," Lewandowski told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files," a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
He later added: "Any staffer who contacted or potentially contacted a Russian agent or a Russian official has done so on their own accord and not at the direction of the campaign, the President or anybody else in the administration."
Manafort took operational control of Trump's campaign after Lewandowski's dismissal -- only to resign two months later, in part due to Manafort's role as a political adviser in Ukraine.
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: Indigo5
Drip....Drip...Drip
It's splat, splat, splat.
Tossing manure at Teflon coated walls.
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
He wasn't working for Trump at the time, FAKE NEWS.
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
The Donald got rid of him as soon as he learned he was a compromised person that would sabotage his campaign.
Manaforts Daughters phone was hacked by Anonymous...
The undated communications, which are allegedly from the iPhone of Manafort’s daughter, include a text that appears to come from a Ukrainian parliamentarian named Serhiy Leshchenko, seeking to reach her father, in which he claims to have politically damaging information about both Manafort and Trump.
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
He wasn't working for Trump at the time, FAKE NEWS.
Right...Manafort was working for Putin's Oligarch in Ukraine at that time..But he also had worked for Trump before...Something the WH spokesperson seemed ...ahem..factually confused about today.
What exactly is fake about this story?
Seeing as Manafort has confirmed the hacked material?
originally posted by: Ohanka
Another Anti-Trump and Anti-Russian hit piece with no basis in fact from a notoriously unreliable globalist-leaning news organisation.
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originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
He wasn't working for Trump at the time, FAKE NEWS.
Right...Manafort was working for Putin's Oligarch in Ukraine at that time..But he also had worked for Trump before...Something the WH spokesperson seemed ...ahem..factually confused about today.
What exactly is fake about this story?
Seeing as Manafort has confirmed the hacked material?
It's Fake because it is a hit piece trying to prove Trump of being compromised by association. Trump got rid of the one who was compromised after only a two month post at his job.
The real estate scandal
On September 6, 2016 was announced that Serhiy Leshchenko bought a luxury apartment in new building in the historic center of Kyiv area of 192 square meters 7.5 million (300 thousand dollars). According to his tax declaration he had no money to buy the appartment.