MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Ukrainian-American Alexander Rovt appears to have given Manafort a suspicious $3.5 million dollar loan right after Manafort left the Trump campaign—and was a snitch risk. This creates a link between Manafort and the Ukraine peace deal. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f…
2/ It looks for all the world like Manafort was brought aboard Team Trump in February 2016 to assist with Rovt's "Ukraine peace deal"—a Russian sanctions deal—and that when Trump fired Manafort, Rovt paid him $3.5 million for services rendered and to keep his f*cking mouth shut.
3/ I've been saying since January of 2017 that *all* the circumstantial evidence suggests that Trump's campaign began negotiating sanctions with the Russians in Spring of 2016, not during the transition, and Jesus Christ if that doesn't now look to be *exactly* what happened.
4/ (To be clear, Trump made Russia aware of his Russia policy in '13 in Moscow, but that awareness didn't translate into negotiations about Trump's presidential campaign until spring '16 at the latest, with it possibly being an issue during the '15 Trump Tower Moscow talks also.)
5/ Months ago, NBC News (Howard Fineman) reported that Trump was telling his friends that there was *one* person who could definitely hurt him if he "flipped," and guess who it was?
Paul Manafort.
And who's the *one* person holding out on Mueller due to him expecting a pardon?
Paul Manafort.
And who's the *one* person holding out on Mueller due to him expecting a pardon?
