There have been a lot of instances in the past few months where a story about Trump contains a\u00a0throw-away line that seems\u00a0more important than the story being conveyed. Not reading EOs in a NYTimes piece not long after the inauguration, for instance.<\/p>\n
Today’s reporting on Paul Manafort seems to be following this trend. The guy had a multi-million dollar contract with\u00a0Oleg Deripaska … who is, in turn, a friend\/ally of Putin. There’s a lot of focus on the money involved, the farther involvement of Trump associates with Russians, and the speeches and policy changes that were made pre-convention last year. But the scope of the work seems to be overlooked. He\u00a0provided\u00a0strategies on how to advance Russian interests around the world and undermine Putin’s political rivals. Which sounds a\u00a0lot<\/em> like advancing Russia’s interests\u00a0by<\/em> undermining rivals … or hacking the DNC and releasing information that negatively reflects on Clinton. And releasing\u00a0more<\/em> when she still looked to be leading in the weeks prior to the election.<\/p>\n The campaign chair potentially came up with the strategy\u00a0that may or may not have involved collusion from Trump’s team.\u00a0Even if they’re a bunch of stooges … the fact that the chap who consulted on the policy in the first place then took a high-level position with the campaign looks REALLY bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There have been a lot of instances in the past few months where a story about Trump contains a\u00a0throw-away line that seems\u00a0more important than the story being conveyed. Not reading EOs in a NYTimes piece not long after the inauguration, for instance. Today’s reporting on Paul Manafort seems to be following this trend. The guy …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,40],"tags":[24,147],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-politics-and-government","tag-random","tag-russiagate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}