#Trump has his posse again. Today it’s more #Republican elected officials. Today, Trump will be joined by the #House speaker, #MikeJohnson, as well as #NorthDakota’s governor, #DougBurgum, a contender to be Trump's running mate. Also present will be Representatives #ByronDonalds & #CoryMills of Florida, & #VivekRamaswamy, who was one of Trump's primary rivals this year. Both Donalds & Ramaswamy are longshot hopefuls to be Trump's running mate.
#MichaelCohen reads aloud the tweets #Trump put out when Cohen pleaded guilty, saying that he felt “very badly for #PaulManafort & his wonderful family” & praising #Manafort for refusing to “break“
“Such respect for a brave man.”
A sitting president was tweeting these things.
Also shown: Trump's tweets attacking Cohen saying if anyone wants a good lawyer, he doesn’t recommend Cohen. He contrasts Cohen & Manafort, a #loyal ally, & criticizes Cohen for “breaking.”
[NYTimes]: Amid Scrutiny, Paul Manafort Leaves Republican Convention Role
Eight years after helping Donald J. Trump get elected — and four years after being released from prison — the longtime political operative was back as a volunteer to advise the G.O.P. convention. By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
A fmr White House aide who worked closely w/ #Trump returned to the stand to testify about a significant meeting between Trump & #MichaelCohen his personal lawyer that is at the center of Trump’s #criminal trial.
Desperate to distract attention away from the humiliating fact that he's unable to secure a bond for the $464 million #EJeanCarroll judgement, #Trump has made the absolutely incredible decision to bring #PaulManafort back onto his campaign team! What a transparent, self-imposed humiliation!
#Trump may enlist #PaulManafort
…While no formal decision has been made, 4 people described the hiring as expected & said Trump was determined to bring #Manafort back into the fold.
Manafort worked for Trump in 2016 before being ousted & later #convicted of tax & bank #fraud#felonies as part of Robert #Mueller’s investigation into #Russia’s 2016 #ElectionInterference. He served time in #prison before receiving a #pardon in the final days of Trump’s presidency.
Convicted felon Paul Manafort passed campaign polling data to his business partner Konstantin Kilimnik who has ties to Russian Intelligence and is wanted by the FBI
Per multiple sources Trump wants Manafort back as a campaign advisor and fundraiser
"In June of 2020, Alexander #Smirnov, an #FBI informant, dropped a “bombshell.” His revelation: The owner of #Burisma, a #Ukrainian energy company, paid $5 million each to Joe #Biden and Hunter Biden as a bribe in exchange for Biden, then Vice President, stopping an investigation into Burisma. Smirnov’s allegation became the basis for the #Republican’s Biden #impeachment inquiry...."
Usually, I don't link to the corporatist #SocialMedia surveillance sites. Today, I'm going to make an exception due to the gravity of this #ProofOfCollusion between #TFG and the #Kremlin
...#MichaelCohen and #PaulManafort were “leading” for #Trump on collusion, which was true—#Cohen was working with the #Kremlin to try to seal the real estate deal Trump wanted even as Trump was hiring a man he knew was a Kremlin agent (#Manafort) to run his [#Elections2016] campaign and do in that role whatever it was the #Kremlin was expecting (which, it turned out, was liaisoning...
NEW: Former Trump campaign manager and convicted felon Paul Manafort was sentenced to 7 years in prison but was released early to home confinement during COVID - Manafort has a new gig as a board member and consultant for a cancer treatment company, my latest:
As each of the three major cable news networks prepared for the possibility of an indictment of Donald Trump Monday night in Georgia, #FoxNews host #SeanHannity turned to none other than #PaulManafort.