# Corey Lewandowski tweets the NYT story about the Manafort/Russia connection:

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**Created:** [August 15, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904 "2016-08-15T13:06:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/61 "2016-08-16T03:37:20Z")

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> [@hulka](#):
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> how can you read anything at this site, then?
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> do you say this to every single post? nothing but black here, and the occasional red.
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> I don’t know how the quote tags help, when the font is still black. do you want me to change it to white?
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> here goes
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> Originally Posted by hulka View Post  
> to dtilque…from the huffpo you cited:
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> The end-of-June FEC report indicates that Trump had lent his campaign $50m. Although Trump promised to forgive this loan, NBC news reported that he never filed the papers to actually do this. Perhaps Trump repaid himself from the $63m, leaving little money for ads and field staff.
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> what does the law say about this?

I have a black background with a white font. It is easier for my eyes to read. It automatically changes the standard black on white to white on black. The section you quoted before, shows as blue, with some black interspersed. This is impossible for me to read. An earlier post of yours where you quoted from somewhere off site also showed in those colors. Something added a blue and a black tag to those quotes, if it wasn’t you, then my apologies.

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**Author:** ![john\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@john\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_L)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/62 "2016-08-16T03:46:03Z")

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James Woolsey got it right tonight when he said press sort of jumped the gun on this story.

especially since FBI just entered into agreement w/ National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine in June… plus USA gov is funding it.

FBI leak to NYT ??

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/63 "2016-08-16T03:49:26Z")

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The white font was not nice, hulka. Especially coming after your overly-aggressive post, it sounded like “Ooh, Mr. Fussy doesn’t like blue. Well, how about invisible? How d’ya like that?”

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**Author:** ![hulka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@hulka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hulka)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/64 "2016-08-16T04:13:32Z")

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just feeling a bit cranky after 21 hours of watching lying liars lie all over the place on cnn/msnbc. how do those aggressively obnoxious crooks shave themselves every day?

I could be like trump and end it there, but…

sorry evrubudduh…will play nice forever

Oh, and Woolsey… he’s one of the creepiest, biggest liars around.

here; take your pick. aside from the wingnut sites, you can drink your fill of his lies, distortions, and misstatements, which he accomplished quite well on cnn, when he wasn’t just blathering meandering, irrelevant platitudes. I was about to say he’s seen better days, but that would be inaccurate, as I don’t think he’s ever seen a good one yet.

> **[Google](https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=james+woolsey+liar)**
>
> Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for.

oh, and Rachel maddow is talking about putin’s buddy right now. she did a great job filling in the cracks that Woolsey so clumsily tried to drive in the “press release” he kept calling the Times story. what an ass

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**Author:** ![hulka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@hulka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hulka)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/65 "2016-08-16T04:24:44Z")

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> [@john\_L](#):
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> FBI leak to NYT ??

Comey’s FBI only leaks to the likes of Trey Gowdy these days, and is only too happy to provide the BS 302 summaries that can be made up out of whole cloth. he’s giving them, in lieu of transcripts or recordings to the Benghazi boys to do with what they will. this includes no public release, in order that NO CONTEXT can be provided.

for those that don’t know, Comey cut his teeth as one of the chief investigators in the Whitewater case

he’s one of the original Fools for Scandal perpetrators, and he’s never gotten rid of his H-O for the Clintons.

moving right along, the REAL email scandal was how he misused his office in the most unseemly manner, then had to walk much of his BS back at the hearings, when he was forced to admit that out of the two THOUSAND emails, only two or three could even plausibly be considered secret, and those two were mismarked.

you want the details? here are a few more…1900 of those were upclassified AFTER the fact. the remaining 110 or so were NOT MARKED at all. the remaining ones had little ‘c’ marks down in the body. classification marks are always supposed to be marked at the top, so that proper care is given

unbelievable what happens when you keep right wing maniacs on board from a previous admin, which just happened to be the worst in history.

Obama very badly needs to fire his unethical ass as soon as the election is over…screw his 10 year appointment

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**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/66 "2016-08-16T04:34:26Z")

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> [@john\_L](#):
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> especially since FBI just entered into agreement w/ \*\*National Anti-Corruption Bureau \*\ ***of Ukraine** in June… plus USA gov is funding it.
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> FBI leak to NYT ??

hulka -all that in 2 posts above … w/ no mention of NABU. ?

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/67 "2016-08-16T04:44:29Z")

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> [@hulka](#):
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> Comey’s FBI only leaks to the likes of Trey Gowdy these days, and is only too happy to provide the BS 302 summaries that can be made up out of whole cloth. he’s giving them, in lieu of transcripts or recordings to the Benghazi boys to do with what they will. this includes no public release, in order that NO CONTEXT can be provided.
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> for those that don’t know, Comey cut his teeth as one of the chief investigators in the Whitewater case
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> he’s one of the original Fools for Scandal perpetrators, and he’s never gotten rid of his H-O for the Clintons.
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> moving right along, the REAL email scandal was how he misused his office in the most unseemly manner, then had to walk much of his BS back at the hearings, when he was forced to admit that out of the two THOUSAND emails, only two or three could even plausibly be considered secret, and those two were mismarked.
> 
> you want the details? here are a few more…1900 of those were upclassified AFTER the fact. **the remaining 110 or so were NOT MARKED at all.** the remaining ones had little ‘c’ marks down in the body. classification marks are always supposed to be marked at the top, so that proper care is given
> 
> unbelievable what happens when you keep right wing maniacs on board from a previous admin, which just happened to be the worst in history.
> 
> Obama very badly needs to fire his unethical ass as soon as the election is over…screw his 10 year appointment

And he noted those contained information that was clearly of a classified nature despite not being marked.

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**Author:** ![hulka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@hulka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hulka)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/68 "2016-08-16T13:44:03Z")

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comey said a lot of things that didn’t add up, and was forced to admit it during his testimony to at least two democratic members of the inquisitorial board.

if that stuff was so clearly classified, he should have indicted her; that was his entire mission. he knew he couldn’t legally go there, so he decided to smear her instead.

he knew his editorializing without indicting was unethical for any prosecutor. it almost never happens in the real world; only in a magical reality, in which a highly politicized operative with a 20+ year obsession couldn’t resist sticking a dagger where it never should have been unsheathed in the first place. he violated his own departmental guidelines in the bargain:

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> …his (Comey’s) willingness to reprimand publicly a figure against whom he believes there is no basis for criminal charges should trouble anyone who believes in the rule of law and fundamental principles of fairness. **Justice Department rules set clear guidelines for when it is appropriate for the government to comment about individuals involved in an ongoing investigation,** which this matter was until prosecutors closed it Wednesday. Prosecutors and investigators can reassure the public that a matter is being taken seriously, and in some rare cases can provide additional information to protect public safety, such as when a suspect is loose and poses a danger.
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> And when the department closes an investigation, it typically does so quietly, at most noting that it has investigated the matter fully and decided not to bring charges.
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> \*\*These practices are important because of the role the Justice Department and FBI play in our system of justice. They are not the final adjudicators of the appropriateness of conduct for anyone they investigate. \*\*Instead, they build cases that they present in court, where their assertions are backed up by evidence that can be challenged by an opposing party and ultimately adjudicated by a judge or jury.
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> In a case where the government decides it will not submit its assertions to that sort of rigorous scrutiny by bringing charges, it has the responsibility to not besmirch someone’s reputation by lobbing accusations publicly instead. Prosecutors and agents have followed this precedent for years.\*\*

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/james-comeys-abuse-of-power/2016/07/06/7799d39e-4392-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d\_story.html?utm\_term=.4612375d09de](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/james-comeys-abuse-of-power/2016/07/06/7799d39e-4392-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d_story.html?utm_term=.4612375d09de)

he either should have indicted or stfu…that’s the way it works

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**Author:** ![hulka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@hulka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hulka)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/69 "2016-08-16T14:12:01Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Imagine a situation in which the Obama Justice Department investigates major conservative activists such as the Koch brothers for possibly violating the law, but finding no reason to bring charges, the attorney general holds a news conference to outline all of the ways in which she finds their conduct deplorable. A Republican attorney general declining to bring charges against union officials but publicly excoriating their behavior would be similarly objectionable.

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/james-comeys-abuse-of-power/2016/07/06/7799d39e-4392-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d\_story.html?utm\_term=.4612375d09de](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/james-comeys-abuse-of-power/2016/07/06/7799d39e-4392-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d_story.html?utm_term=.4612375d09de)

this entire editorial needs to be read, on a widespread basis, because this ridiculous untrustworthy meme, heavily finance for over two decades, and put into action by the likes of Comey and his ilk, have completely skewed the public consciousness regarding the clinons. why on earth, despite the most base intentions of their adversaries, has NOTHING ever come of all these spurious investigations? how many Benghazi hearings, lasting longer than 911, JFK, Iran Contra, you name it?

and if she wins, how long before they begin impeachment hearings? somebody ought to do a poll similar to the one here regarding Trump’s pulling out.

but I digress…this is beyond infuriating

OK…if you haven’t read this, give it a go. it’s long, but it sets the tone regarding what has been done over the last 20 years:

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> So how did we get here? Well, at the expense of shocking you, dear reader, it all began with the New York Times–specifically with a series of much-praised articles by investigative reporter Jeff Gerth: groundbreaking, exhaustively researched, but not particularly fair or balanced stories that combine a prosecutorial bias and the art of tactical omission to insinuate all manner of sin and skulduggery. Accompanied by a series of indignant editorials, Gerth’s work helped create a full-scale media clamor last December for a special prosecutor. Testimony in recent Senate hearings showed that the Resolution Trust Corporation’s Whitewater investigation began in direct response to the Times coverage; the hearings themselves resulted in large part from the Clinton Administration’s panicky reaction to reporters’ queries about the RTC probe, Gerth’s among them. Absent the near-talismanic role of the New York Times in American journalism, the whole complex of allegations and suspicions subsumed under the word “Whitewater” might never have made it to the front page, much less come to dominate the national political dialogue for months at a time. It is all the more disturbing, then, that most of the insinuations in Gerth’s reporting are either highly implausible or demonstrably false.
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> Let us return briefly to those thrilling days of yesteryear–specifically the 1992 primary season. On March 8, 1992, Jeff Gerth’s initial story about Whitewater appeared on the Times front page under the headline CLINTONS JOINED S.&L. OPERATOR IN AN OZARK REAL-ESTATE VENTURE:

gee, now doesn’t that sound eerily familiar…sort of a template, perhaps, for all that has followed, culminating in Comey? he really needs to be fired. that’s the first official act she should perfom as president.

you can read the rest here:

[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/whitewater/lyonsarticle.html](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/whitewater/lyonsarticle.html)

watch the discussion:

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzaK6-xTC4w)

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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/70 "2016-08-16T14:29:25Z")

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> [@hulka](#):
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> if that stuff was so clearly classified, he should have indicted her; that was his entire mission.

No. Mishandling classified documents is (unfortunately) incredibly common in military and government. If every instance resulted in an indictment, a very large percentage (and possibly a majority) of the people I served with in the military and in civilian government afterwards would have been prosecuted. In my 15 years of military and government experience, it’s only prosecuted when done for spying, for profit, or to help a journalist. I’ve never heard of anyone prosecuted for mishandling classified documents out of laziness or carelessness – they’re retrained, or if it’s a habit, they’re fired, but not prosecuted. That’s why the motive was so important for this case, and there was never any reason to believe that any document mishandling among Clinton or her team was for any reason other than laziness or carelessness.

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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/71 "2016-08-16T14:38:26Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> No. Mishandling classified documents is (unfortunately) incredibly common in military and government. If every instance resulted in an indictment, a very large percentage (and possibly a majority) of the people I served with in the military and in civilian government afterwards would have been prosecuted. In my 15 years of military and government experience, it’s only prosecuted when done for spying, for profit, or to help a journalist. I’ve never heard of anyone prosecuted for mishandling classified documents out of laziness or carelessness – they’re retrained, or if it’s a habit, they’re fired, but not prosecuted. That’s why the motive was so important for this case, and there was never any reason to believe that any document mishandling among Clinton or her team was for any reason other than laziness or carelessness.

At my office, when there are mishandled documents resulting in a security violation, we don’t get our free cookies that month. No other ramifications.

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**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/72 "2016-08-16T16:07:43Z")

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> [@UncleRojelio](#):
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> At my office, when there are mishandled documents resulting in a security violation, we don’t get our free cookies that month. No other ramifications.

Dude, that is clearly cruel and inhuman punishment!

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/73 "2016-08-16T16:23:45Z")

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Hulka,

Enough with the text colors. It’s annoying and presents some other posters problems. Knock it off.

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**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/74 "2016-08-16T17:02:42Z")

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The one thing I don’t get about this whole thing, why is Lewandowski retweeting this? All accounts are that he still supports Trump, he must know that this would make him look bad. Is he so delusional that he thinks he can smear the guy’s campaign manager and then get hired back in case he resigns?

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/75 "2016-08-19T05:25:35Z")

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Bumping for some [breaking news.](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c01989a47ee5421593ba1b301ec07813/ap-sources-manafort-tied-undisclosed-foreign-lobbying)

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> WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign chairman helped a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012, and did so in a way that effectively obscured the foreign political party’s efforts to influence U.S. policy.  
> …  
> People with direct knowledge of Gates’ work said that, during the period when Gates and Manafort were consultants to the Ukraine president’s political party, Gates was also helping steer the advocacy work done by a pro-Yanukovych nonprofit that hired a pair of Washington lobbying firms, Podesta Group Inc. and Mercury LLC.
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> The nonprofit, the newly created European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, was governed by a board that initially included parliament members from Yanukovych’s party. The nonprofit subsequently paid at least $2.2 million to the lobbying firms to advocate positions generally in line with those of Yanukovych’s government.

In any normal campaign Manafort would be out on his ass in no time flat. We’ll see what happens.

But maybe he’ll star in a spinoff of The Americans called The Ukranians.

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**Author:** ![john\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@john\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_L)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/76 "2016-08-19T06:25:35Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> Bumping for some [breaking news.](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c01989a47ee5421593ba1b301ec07813/ap-sources-manafort-tied-undisclosed-foreign-lobbying)  
> In any normal campaign Manafort would be out on his ass in no time flat. We’ll see what happens.
> 
> But maybe he’ll star in a spinoff of The Americans called The Ukranians.

hhhmmm… Podesta Group … that would be John Podesta’s firm.  
he’s Hillary’s head honcho fixer.  
goes back to Willie’s yrs as potus.

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**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/77 "2016-08-19T14:12:13Z")

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[Manafort resigned.](http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/291957-manafort-resigns-from-trump-campaign-report)

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**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/78 "2016-08-19T14:25:53Z")

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> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> [Manafort resigned.](http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/291957-manafort-resigns-from-trump-campaign-report)

[Dun-dun-DUN!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW7Op86ox9g)

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**Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/79 "2016-08-25T13:43:33Z")

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Related to the Russian-hacking subthread:

> [@](#):
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> [Whoopsie: Russian hackers post same document twice, but with glaring differences](http://www.ottawacitizen.com/News/12147705/story.html)
> 
> Often, in war, mistakes are made. Sometimes, in Russia’s information war against the West, mistakes are made and then published for all the world to see.
> 
> That seems to be what happened when two supposedly independent hacking groups, believed by security experts to have ties to the Kremlin, posted the same documents stolen from a philanthropy run by George Soros. But the hack included a twist: Some of the documents taken by one group were altered in a bid to try and link Soros to Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, revealing how hackers likely working for Moscow are editing documents to smear their victims…

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corey-lewandowski-tweets-the-nyt-story-about-the-manafort-russia-connection/762904/80 "2016-08-25T18:46:37Z")

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> [@Steve\_MB](#):
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> Related to the Russian-hacking subthread:
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> > [@](#):
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> > revealing how hackers likely working for Moscow are editing documents to smear their victims…

A preview of the October Surprise!

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