Regardless, Manafort did not play a “limited role” in the campaign. He was involved with the campaign for five months, serving as campaign chairman for three of those months until he resigned. Moreover, his roles in the campaign, particularly Convention Manager, were crucial, and arguably prevented a derailing of Trump’s nomination through a floor fight at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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Here's the thing. You are correct this is not a direct link to Trump. What is behind all this, that's the question. I don't know. Could be nothing. We'll find out over time.
As I have said let me look into everything someone has done with no limits on time or scope and I could probably charge every person on this board with a crime. Every single one. This is not how our justice system works. We do not investigate people to find a crime. A crime is discovered and then we look for suspects not the other way around. This is KGB, NAZI level shit.
I really can't find words scathing enough to describe the extreme disdain I feel for idiots who know all of this to be true, but go along with it because it's their side doing it. They don't deserve to live in a free country.
The investigation didn't start out of thin air, nor did it start from the "fake dossier" as Trump often claims.
During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.
About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.
Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role.
The hacking and the revelation that a member of the Trump campaign may have had inside information about it were driving factors that led the F.B.I. to open an investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of President Trump’s associates conspired.[/b] [/i]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/...-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html