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Jon Gabriel & Liz Wheeler on the Manafort/Putin Connection
Ricochet Editor-in-Chief Jon Gabriel appeared on “Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler” to discuss the connection between former Trump campaign director Paul Manafort and Russian oligarchs.
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Hey! I’m a mercenary. I am out there. I’m after the millions of dollars. I don’t care where it comes from. Just as long as it’s in small used bills and it doesn’t smell funky. Where are my shopping bags full of filty (though unscented) luchre?
“Mufasa, ooooh say it again, Mufasa”. “Putin, ooooh scary, say it again, Putin! Oooooh”.
Nice discussion Jon.
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Infractions of Ricochet's CoC include "Obscenities and vulgarities, even using various symbols for letters, or shorthand (e.g., text messaging abbreviations). Ricochet style is to use '[expletive].'"Paul Manafort is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer will. He once killed 3 men with only a pencil. A [redacted] pencil. Paul Manafort is Baba Yaga. The Boogeyman.
You should see where he’s dipped hisWick.
I killed a man with a pen more times than I can remember. “DC oxygen , titration of Morphine for comfort”. Not quite the same though as Manafort destiny. He’s the man who comes for the bogeyman. “Putin , ooooooh, say it again, ooooh”.
You’ve never seen Paul Manafort and Keyser Soze in the same place. Nobody has.
The greatest trick Manafort ever played was that he didn’t exist.
The road to continued US open borders runs through Russia.
Shouldn’t Ricochet be talking about the Podesta brothers ties to Russia or Hillary’s ties to Russia rather than Manafort?
“Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has confirmed that it hired the consultancy of Tony Podesta, the elder brother of John Podesta who chaired Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, for lobbying its interests in the United States and proactively seeking the removal of various Obama-era sanctions, the press service of the Russian institution told TASS on Thursday.
“John Podesta, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 national campaign chairman, may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the receipt of 75,000 shares of stock from a Kremlin-financed company when he joined the Obama White House in 2014, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. Joule Unlimited Technologies — financed in part by a Russian firm — originally awarded Podesta 100,000 shares of stock options when in 2010 he joined that board along with its Dutch-based entities: Joule Global Holdings, BV and the Stichting Joule Global Foundation. When Podesta announced his departure from the Joule board in January 2014 to become President Obama’s special counsellor, the company officially issued him 75,000 common shares of stock.”
Sberbank was the lead financial institution in the Russian deal to purchase Uranium One, owned by one of Bill Clinton’s closest friends, Frank Giustra. Giustra and Bill Clinton lead the Clinton-Giustra Enterprise Partnership, an integral part of the Clinton Foundation.