Paul Manafort is scum. Indeed, he is whatever is beneath scum. But I also believe he is being made a scapegoat and the MSM is lapping it up like it laps everything up.
Last July, we learned that the Trump campaign was actively seeking funding from foreign sources in the UK, Australia and Iceland. We learned that because some of the people being solicited told us. It was weird. The TrumpCo letters were going out to people not naturally inclined to support Donald Trump. Why would they do that?
At the time, I wondered...aloud, here on DKos...if this was a smokescreen for also asking Putin’s oligarchs for money and support. No way the oligarchs would ever tell us.
Now we know those letters to the UK, Australia and Iceland went out at.the.same.time Manafort was telling Deripaska the campaign could give him private briefings about progress. Briefings on progress are something you give to someone who has taken a stake in your enterprise.
Manafort didn’t send this message through a personal account, he sent it through his campaign account.
I see dots. Lots of dots. And they all connect the Trump campaign to Putin cronies.
If I can remember MSM reporting on all of this, why can’t the MSM?