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💥 Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy - Exclusive: Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before emails hacked by Russia were published - Sources said Manafort visited Assange in 2013, 2015 & 2016, by @lukeharding1968 @yachay_dc
theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
"Visitors normally register with embassy security guards and show their passports. Sources in Ecuador, however, say Manafort was not logged."
theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
Per sources, Manafort has known Assange at least since late 2012 or 2013, when Manafort was working in Ukraine advising its Moscow-friendly president, Viktor Yanukovych. Manafort often flew from the US to Ukraine’s capital Kiev – sometimes through London.
theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
Related scoop from June 2018 - Adam Waldman who was US lobbyist for Oleg Deripaska (who Manafort also worked for) had visited Assange 9 times in 2017
HT @dwinfrey72
Mueller investigating 2017 meeting between Manafort and Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno and a group of Chinese businessmen re: privatizing Ecuador's electric corp - and whether WikiLeaks or Julian Assange were discussed, by @carlbernstein @devancole1
cnn.it/2Qs5q98
A topic raised earlier before this story broke by @StacyJannis
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💣BOOM💣

Huge News Day!

📌Mueller has emails from Stone pal Corsi re WikiLeaks Dem email dump

📌CorsiEmail: Word is (J-Ass) plans 2 more dumps...Impact planned to be very damaging,"

Manafort’s lies give Mueller an excuse to publish everything re Manafort’s “crimes and lies,”
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WikiLeaks launches legal fund to sue the Guardian for publishing entirely fabricated story "Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy" -- which spread all over the world today. It is time the Guardian paid a price for fabricating news. gofundme.com/wikileaks-suin…
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STATEMENT from Manafort: "This story is totally false and deliberately libelous. I have never met Julian Assange or anyone connected to him. I have never been contacted by anyone connected to Wikileaks, either directly or indirectly." (1/2)
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Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in 2013, 2015, & MAR 2016 – during the time he joined Trump’s campaign, months before emails hacked by Russia were published by WikiLeaks.
by @lukeharding1968 @yachay_dc #Maddow bit.ly/2RjkgvS
•➤ MAR 2016: Manafort secretly meets with Assange; Russian GRU officers begin the email hack.
•➤ JUN 2016: WikiLeaks emails the GRU via an intermediary seeking the DNC material.
•➤ JUL 2016: Putin’s spies sent the documents to WikiLeaks as an encrypted attachment.
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Recall, last week a court filing released in error suggested that the US Justice Department had secretly charged Julian Assange with a criminal offense.
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Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy | US news | The Guardian
Aaaaaaagagagahagaga theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
separate internal document written by Ecuador’s Senain intelligence agency and seen by the Guardian lists “Paul Manaford [sic]” as one of several well-known guests. It also mentions “Russians”.
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See the March 2016 date and WHY is that significant?
Waves Hiya GRU👇🏻
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Wow >> Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy, including in March 2016. Months later, WikiLeaks dumped emails stolen by Russia to help Trump. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
#BREAKING #Manafort met with #Wikileaks #Assange in 2016—just as he became Trump campaign manager. Manafort visit wasn't logged as is normal for embassy visitors. Secret meeting lasted 40 minutes. Source recalls he wore sandy chinos theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
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Trump hired known dirty operative Paul Manafort in March 2016. Manafort became Campaign Chair/Chief Strategist in May, Campaign Manager in June. By June M had met w/ Assange & Russians at Trump Tower about dirt. Trump loved Wikileaks dirt, joining a Russian conspiracy against US.
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#Assange Prosecution Will Focus On #ChelseaManning Era Releases, Not #DNCEmails

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Recent reports have indicated that formerly secret charges pending against #JulianAssange will focus on material relating to @xychelsea and the earliest releases published by #WikiLeaks.
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