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Manafort was a typical DC hack. But he was a hack of the team red variety and so he was prosecuted for something like not being registered as an agent of a foreign country which he was representing in some fashion yet his boss, the other sleazeball Podesta brother was doing the exact same thing and suffered zero consequences.

But the DOJ's not politicized. Oh no.

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Lee Smith’s “The Plot Against The President,” has an underreported passage that in January of 2016, before the Iowa Caucuses, while Manafort was still in rehab, CIA Analyst who shall not be named, Eric Ciaramella—of future “whistleblower” fame—asked a visiting delegation of Ukrainian law enforcement officials for incriminating information on Manafort from his time in Ukraine, linking him to Russia.

In other words, the Democrats were plotting to link the GOP Presidential campaign to Russia 3 months before the supposedly learned they’d been hacked by Russians and 4 months before Trump became the GOP nominee. It’s almost like they knew Russian and Ukrainian donations to the Clinton Foundation were a major weakness and that luckily one of only two living GOP consultants to have managed a brokered convention in a year the Republican nomination was expected to go down to the wire had done extensive work in Ukraine advocating a “get along with Europe AND Russia” policy. If that guy, as appears likely, winds up working for the winning GOP presidential campaign, then we can use him to tie the nominee, whoever that winds up being to Russia, to distract attention from all the bribes our candidates foundation has taken.

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