Post#1857 » by Zonkerbl » Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:44 am
So, to summarize, up until 2014 when the Ukrainian dictator he was working for was deposed, Manafort (and Gates) were raking in cash to the tune of $30 million dollars, which they laundered illegally. After Yanukovich was defeated, that income stream dried up and suddenly Manafort was holding the bag for something like $12 million in debt, $8 million to Russian oligarch/mafiosi boss Deripaska. In late 2015 to early 2016 Manafort and Gates are holding a fraud party trying to illegally obtain loans (by lying about their income) to pay Deripaska off, who sued Manafort in Cyprus and then in Virginia (even though Deripaska cannot get a visa to come to the US because of his ties with organized crime in Russia).
Then, suddenly, Manafort volunteers to work as Trump's campaign manager *for free* in March 2016. He then arranged to have messages sent back and forth to Deripaska asking if he can leverage his new position to be "made whole." Now Manafort/Gate's frantic attempts to raise money fraudulently cease, temporarily, as Manafort flies off to Russia to brief Deripaska on ... something, we don't know.
Miraculously, 3 months later, Manafort is able to secure a $16 million loan from a veterans bank in Chicago, a loan that is 25% of the bank's total loanable assets. Mysteriously, one of the senior officials at the bank contacts the Pentagon asking to be briefed on his new job as head of the US army. But that's neither here nor there.
What did Manafort use to get the pressure off of him after joining the Trump campaign? Did he promise to help lift sanctions on Russia in exchange for alleviation of his debt? Did Trump personally know about this scheme? And why is Trump (Trump! himself!) *still* actively sabotaging efforts by the US Congress to impose sanctions on Russia?
There can be no doubt, now, that Trump is dirty as hell and belongs in jail. He betrayed our country for personal gain. Manafort, Trump, all those criminals all had their hands in the Yanukovich till and were all stuck holding the bag when he lost the elections in 2014, they're all in hock to the Russian government and all deeply indebted to the Russians for strategically releasing HRC's hacked (well, stolen - there's some dispute as to how that actually happened, some experts say they were copied to a flash drive and physically carried out, which is not technically hacking) emails, in explicit exchange for lifting of sanctions on Russia, *which Trump has done*. There is no other way to explain Trump's bizaare behavior towards Russia except that he is executing an explicit quid pro quo with Russia to lift sanctions in exchange for easing pressure on Trump and his cronies to pay back their crushing debt - owed to Russian mafiosi bosses, who DO NOT SCREW AROUND.
I predict that Trump will be impeached and in jail by the end of 2019, if he is not bumped off by angry Russian mafiosi first. Although I doubt it - Putin wins either way, either the sanctions get lifted, or the US political system is thrown into absolute chaos. I just hope some specifics of the absolutely evil deeds Trump has committed in betrayal of our country for his own personal gain comes out before Nov 2018.
I've been taught all my life to value service to the weak and powerless.
Helluva a recap, nicely done