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[NEW] Special counsel says "collusion" won't come up at Paul Manafort bank fraud trial but there is a link to the Trump campaign: Banker Stephen Calk loaned Manafort $16M in hopes of getting a job in the Trump admin.
by @rachelweinerwp @hsu_spencer #Maddow wapo.st/2zgTGPH?tid=ss…
ICYMI in July 2017: The Manhattan DA and the New York AG subpoenaed Federal Savings Bank [run by Trump campaign advisor Steve Calk] for records related the $16M Paul Manafort loan. Calk gave the loan when he was pushing to become Trump's Army Sec
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Feb 21, 2018: Mueller is investigating if ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort promised Federal Savings Bank president Stephen Calk a WH job in return for 2 loans made to Manafort's Summerbreeze LLC [which he created the day he left the campaign].
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THREAD: In light of the Trump admin lifting sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's companies, recall that Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, conspired with Deripaska during the 2016 campaign with help from Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
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JUL 7, 2016: Manafort offers Deripaska private campaign briefings then meets with Kilimnik re the same on Aug 2.

AUG 11, 2016 email from Manafort's CPA: "Paul has indicated $2.4M in fees earned, but not yet received. Expected to be deposited Nov 2016 [post election?]."
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JUL 29, 2016 email from Russian intelligence operative Kilimnik to Manafort [days after Trump accepts GOP nomination]: "I met today with [Deripaska]. I have important messages from him to you. He asked me to go & brief you on our conversation."
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JUN 15, 2016
McCARTHY: There’s two people, I think, Putin pays – Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God.

RYAN: This is an off the record [laughter] NO LEAKS...alright?! This is how we know we’re a real family.

SCALISE: That’s how you know that we’re tight.
-Never forget-
JUN 15, 2016, @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy to Paul Ryan, @SteveScalise, and other GOP: "There’s...there’s two people, I think, Putin pays. Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God."

@Evan_McMullin was there and confirmed it was not a joke.
wapo.st/2pY7eFF
Per @Evan_McMullin: One senior GOP leader [that's you, @GOPLeader!] dolefully informed his peers that he thought Trump was on the Kremlin’s payroll and had been compromised by Russian intelligence. Other GOP leaders were surprised but did not dispute him.
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CORRECTION: Manafort told Kilimnik to pass TRUMP polling data not to Deripaska but to Ukrainian oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov & Serhiy Lyovochkin, who funneled $50K to Trump's inaugural & is business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss Mogilevich].
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FYI: Rick Gates testified that between 2010-2013, former Yanukovych CoS Serhiy Lyovochkin funneled $42M to Paul Manafort. At the time, Lyovochkin was business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss, Semion Mogilevich].
#Maddow kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
In his plea deal, Sam Patten, US business partner of Konstantin Kilimnik [Russian GRU associate of Manafort & Gates] who worked for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, said a Ukranian oligarch [Serhiy Lyovochkin] funneled $50K into Trump's inaugural fund.
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#Collusion panel with @carolecadwalla @lukeharding1968 @BylineFest #BylineFest
Carole asks Luke: when did Trump cross your radar?

Luke: summer 2016. When Manafort became campaign manager whom Luke had met in Ukraine who was consultant transforming Yavchenko. What was he doing in Soviet Empire?? He was best connected political lobbist in area. Pre-Steele!
.@lukeharding1968 was investigating Deutsch Bank. DB kept lending even after Trump sued DB for losses arising from #FinCrisis. Dec 2016 Luke met Christopher Steele who said, Follow the Money, Follow the Sex #BylineFest @BylineFest
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Transcript on the cross-examination of the Special Counsel's star witness Rick Gates in the Paul Manafort case.

How much did he embezzle?

How many lies did he tell the Special Counsel during their investigation?

Thread.
Before cross-examination began, there was a bench discussion. Manafort's lawyer said he would get into how Gates stole money to fund his "secret life."

There was an agreement that they wouldn't bring up Gates' infidelity.
However, they were going to imply how he stole the money to finance his "separate secret life."

The special counsel didn't object to that.
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#Manafort's Virginia trial begins today—1st of 2 for Trump's Campaign Manager whose shady work for pro-Russia oligarchs in Ukraine were well known. Mueller team will tell this story thru 18 counts of financial crimes. They'll likely also establish debt/cash flow problems by 2016.
#Manafort trial update: Federal judge approves jury of 6 men and 6 women to hear Special Counsel Mueller’s case. The panel of jurors deciding fmr Trump campaign mgr’s fate was plucked from Fairfax County, a part of Virginia that voted heavily against Trump abcn.ws/2AqQ9i9
#Manafort Trial: Mueller Team Opening Statement Paints Manafort as "shrewd liar," rich cheat & thief who acted above the law. Mind-blowing resemblance betw Manafort & disgraced patron Yanukovych, who also happens to be on trial now—for treason in Ukraine. cnn.com/2018/07/31/pol…
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💣BOOM💣

Mueller asked the EDVA judge to give **#immunity to 5 potential witnesses** who will testify at Manafort’s bank-#fraud trial starting July 25, but ONLY if they get immunity‼️ 1/

#MuellerTime

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Mueller didn’t identify the FIVE witnesses who ROLLED on Manafort👉🏼have NOT been charged and would plead the Fifth & remain silent unless granted #immunity (they got a VERY good deal). Their names will be made public only if they are called to testify.🤔 2/

#MuellerTime
These 5 witnesses who got a deal have ties to the BANK-FRAUD and other charges against Manafort. So who are they⁉️

It's NOT Rick Gates (he was CHARGED & pleaded GUILTY). These five witnesses have NOT been charged.🤔 3/

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Hello from the DC federal courthouse, where a judge today will weigh whether to change Paul Manafort's pretrial release conditions (or revoke them altogether), AND Manafort is being arraigned on the latest indictment. Earlier: buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/mue… & buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/m…
Update: We're taking a quick break. Paul Manafort pleased not guilty to the new superseding indictment. Judge heard arguments on whether Manafort can stay out of jail pending trial, is expected to announce a decision when we go back in
Special counsel lawyer said they didn't believe there were any conditions that could assure the court Manafort would comply with orders if he is released again, saying he engaged in a "sustained campaign." Manafort's lawyer argued there should just be a clearer "no contact" order
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Mueller's different probes aren't as separate from each other as some believe. There are lines b/w the dots.

This is a pic of Deripaska with indicted "Putin's Chef" on August 9, 2016 in St. Petersburg at a meeting w/Putin and Turkey's President. (thread)
gettyimages.com/detail/news-ph…
Of course "Putin's chef" Prigozhin is 1 of the 13 Russians who were indicted by Mueller last Friday. He was in charge of the St. Petersburg troll farm. And in the middle of the Farm's attack on our election, he was meeting with Manafort's Deripaska. We'll go down this branch 1st.
Earlier that same week on August 2, Deripaska had sent Manafort's former Ukraine office deputy, Kilimnik, to the United States to meet with Manafort in person to deliver messages from him about Russia.
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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