Good thread by @dmeaser but he still hasn't figured out that Manafort was conspiring with Oleg Deripaska AGAINST Trump. That Trump was the competition that Deripaska & his allies were working to destroy, by planting Manafort inside Trump's camp as a spy & saboteur.
@dmeaser The spies on Trump's team (Manafort & Gates) worked for Deripaska. The "Russians" like Kilimniak worked for Deripaska. The investigators including Steele, McCabe, Ohr, & Laufmann worked for/with Deripaska. Waldman was the agent for Assange, spreading the emails for, Deripaska.
@dmeaser When you realize that the colluders, Russians, leakers, & investigators were all working with Putin's Oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, you begin to understand it was all a set up from day one. When you realize why they wanted to sabotage Trump, it gets even more interesting!
@dmeaser The reason Trump was sabotaged was to prevent the completion of an FBI covert operation against the Russians. It used FBI assets to run a Wealthy Casino Investor Russian Collusion sting out of Manhattan & Atlantic City. justice.gov/sites/default/… 
@dmeaser That operation exposed corruption to the highest levels of the Russian government, through VEB Bank & Sberbank. But more dangerously, it exposed how those organizations were illegally lobbying DC to escape consequences for global money laundering operations.
