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Chairman of Trump's Presidential Campaign Resigns Amid Pro-Russia Lobbying Scandal

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 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.

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  • (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.