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posted by n1 on Sunday August 21 2016, @01:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the he's-been-rubled dept.

Paul Manafort, the chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign who has been linked to a pro-Russia lobbying scandal, has resigned.

[...] Manafort has drawn fire for millions of dollars in undisclosed payments he allegedly received for lobbying efforts on behalf of a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party.

[...] The documents allegedly show funds allocated to Manafort totalling more than $12.7m between November 2007 and October 2012. But the agency emphasised that it had not determined whether Manafort had actually received that money.

Al Jazeera


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @02:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @02:46AM (#390844)

    When he found out he'd made a fool of himself [twitter.com] in the Stephanopolos interview [twitter.com].

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @03:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @03:11AM (#390853)

    I fully believe trump is a blathering asshole and I no longer give him the benefit of the doubt, he can only go the well of "sarcasm" so many times.

    But... It seems obvious that he meant Russia would not continue to send troops into Ukraine if Trump became president. I know this because he's talked about Russia being in Ukraine many times before that interview. Obviously Putin would walk all over Trump, but that's not relevant to the question of whether or not Trump knew that Russia had taken Crimea from Ukraine.

    The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.

    “We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths."
    -- March, 2014 Today Show [today.com]

    Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. should only step in on Crimea if European countries ask for help and, until then, it remains "Europe's problem."
    -- July 31, 2015 CNN [cnn.com]

    one of the things that I hated seeing is Ukraine. Now I’m all for Ukraine, I have friends that live in Ukraine, but it didn’t seem to me, when the Ukrainian problem arose, you know, not so long ago, and we were, and Russia was getting very confrontational, it didn’t seem to me like anyone else cared other than us. And we are the least affected by what happens with Ukraine because we’re the farthest away.
    -- MARCH 26, 2016 New York Times [nytimes.com]

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @03:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @03:17AM (#390858)

      Trump knew that Russia had seized the Crimea, but it seemed to me that Trump didn't realize that Crimea was part of the Ukraine. Either that, or he had already given it to Russia in his mind, maybe with Manafort's coaching.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @04:49AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @04:49AM (#390894)

        > Trump didn't realize that Crimea was part of the Ukraine.

        That's directly contradicted by the quotes above where he explicitly said Ukraine in the context of the Crimean invasion.

        > Either that, or he had already given it to Russia in his mind,

        Since he was talking about the future, of course he had already given Crimea to Russia. He hasn't back-tracked on that either. He was talking about Russia taking more land from Ukraine.