GOP Paul Manafort, Trump Campaign Manager: TRAITOR? There are serious questions about his Russian dealings.

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The hasty departure of Donald Trump’s campaign manager comes after weeks of speculation about Manafort and Trump’s shared interest in closer ties to Russia. Manafort worked for five years in Ukraine, succeeding in getting the pro-Putin Viktor Yanukovych elected as president, before the Ukrainian people sent Yanukovych running to Russia two years later. Donald Trump’s statements of admiration for Putin didn’t start when he brought Manafort on board, but having the former operative for the now outlawed Party of Regions inside the Trump campaign certainly put a new spin on Trump’s calls to weaken NATO and abandon NATO partners, the campaign’s intervention to drop-language from the RNC platform that objected to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the suggestion that a Trump administration would not only work more closely with Russia, but reward them by legitimizing their occupation of Crimea.

However, despite Donald Trump’s insistence that he only hires the “best people” and his promise of “extreme vetting” for immigrants, it appears that he failed to apply the same questions about supporting “American values” when it came to his interviews with his erstwhile campaign manager.

Because if some of the charges now being levied against Paul Manafort turn out to be true, he’s done more than just accept cash under the table. More even than trying to subvert laws against foreign lobbying. Manafort may have stepped over a very bright line.

“We had rocks thrown at us. Rocks hit Marines. Buses were rocked back and forth. We were just trying to get to our base.” …

The Marines ended up hemmed in by angry locals in Feodosia, a Ukrainian resort city on the Black Sea. ... The Americans couldn’t go outside; they couldn’t reach their supply ship in the town’s port. Some protesters wielded what Col. Bill Black, the Marines’ commanding officer, jokingly called “Ukrainian cocktails” — plastic bottles filled with diesel fuel.

The riot that put American Marines in danger and forced cancellation of a NATO military exercise may have been somewhat less than spontaneous. It may have been bought and paid for by Paul Manafort.