To expand his wardrobe, somehow spend 655,000 on landscaping for his house in the hamptons. It comes as no surprise for anyone who has watched manafort operate but of course the legal system will make the final call on that. Paul manafort is just the first in a series of people in dc who are suddenly in deep, deep trouble. Who is next . Reading between the lines of the indictment and talking to a number of our own sources we think we have a pretty good idea of that. Todays indictment never mentioned Donald Trumps president ial campaign or the 2016 election. It only mentions russia in passing even though russian meddlingly was the pretext for the investigation. Manaforts efforts to lobby on behalf of pro russia groups in ukraine. It goes into great detail on the relationship between manafort and two groups described as company a company b in the indictment. Those companies are mercury llc led by former republican congressman ben weber and the Podesta Group founded by tony and joan podes
Manafort allegedly used laundered offshore cash to buy range rovers, expand his wardrobe, somehow spent 655,000 on landscaping for his house in the hamptons. Manaforts indictment comes as honestly no surprise to anyone who has been in washington for a while and has watched him operate, but of course the legal system will make a final call on that. Its pretty clear that Paul Manafort is just the first in a series of people in d. C. Who are suddenly in deep deep trouble. Who is next . Reading between the lines for the indictment and talking to a number of our own sources, we think we have a pretty good idea of that. Keep in mind that todays indictment never mentions Donald Trumps president ial campaign are the 2016 election. It only mentions russia in passing, even though russian meddling was the pretext for this investigation in the first place. Instead, the indictment catalogs manaforts efforts to lobby on behalf of prorussia groups in ukraine. The indictment goes into great detail on
Animation to show that rick perry had poofed out of the race. And that turned out to be kind of a thing on this show. After rick perry, ten days later, the next candidate to go poof was another high profile republican governor. Scott walker is quitting. Oh, which means we got to poof him off the list. Lets do it. Scott walker going byebye in three, two, one gone. Poof. We started doing this for candidates in the gigantic republican president ial primary in 2015 and 2016. I think we didnt really think through the fact that i was actually signing us up to do that over and over and over again, to do quite a lot of poofing. Once you start, you cant stop. Cant poof just one. And so, it became this thing, we had to do all the time for months. Goodbye mike huckabee. Poof. Rick santorum. You ready . Three, two, one, poof. Chris christie, poof. Carly fee rena, poof. And jim gilmore, poof. All in all, in 2015 and 2016, we ended up tracking the demise of 16 different republican primary candidates