The New York Times has reported that Paul Manafort received $12.7 million from a pro-Russian political party when he was a consultant in the Ukraine from 2007 to 2012. Manafort is the campaign chair for the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
Manafort denied it and said:
“I have never received a single ‘off-the-books cash payment’ as falsely ‘reported’ by The New York Times, nor have I ever done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia. Further, all of the political payments directed to me were for my entire political team: campaign staff (local and international), polling and research, election integrity and television advertising.”
This just adds more fuel to the fire over Trump’s ties to Russia. The Clinton campaign said:
“[Trump] has a responsibility to disclose campaign chair Paul Manafort’s and all other campaign employees’ and advisers’ ties to Russian or pro-Kremlin entities, including whether any of Trump’s employees or advisers are currently representing and or being paid by them.”
Donald Trump has some kind of bromance going on with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia.
It’s not just The Donald, the Trump family has ties to Russia. Ivanka Trump recently went on vacation in Croatia with Putin’s girlfriend.
Manafort said:
“The simplest answer is the truth: I am a campaign professional. It is well known that I do work in the United States and have done work on overseas campaigns as well… The suggestion that I accepted cash payments is unfounded, silly, and nonsensical.”
This is just suspicious. Donald Trump’s campaign has too many ties to Russia.
Here’s The Young Turks exposing all of the “never recieved” off the books cash payments. Where are the crazy conspiracy theorists when you need them? That’s right, they’re Republicans.
