calk seems to be working with manafort and others. so that is the bank fraud charge. what is not charged but springs to mind could be bribery. talking about this outrageous cabinet position. delivering this enormous loan to manafort. why did manafort take this job for no pay at a strange time. just washed out of his ukrainian business. manafort joins the campaign march 29, 2016. in may, they have dinner. he has dinner with the bank ceo. in july they video conference. august 3rd, manafort asks for calk resume. november 11 calk believes he
might be up for job. no legitimate explanation. it ties together. and tells you a story as to why he would have come in as campaign manager. this trial has to do with manafort s activities largely before he enters trump s orbit. but here he is using that position in a corrupt way allegedly. using his proximity of power. and it is the closest we have come to the actual administration in the campaign. and this is the key turning point in the time line. living large, has his crazy wardrobe, his landscaping. his business goes busts and then lying to the bank because he has got to maintain this lifestyle. he outright lied, doctored documents. one theme of the trump era is grifters grifting grifters. everybody is lying. there is a book out which seems
under grant of immunity the bank ceo stephen calk. bank ceo was hoping for treasury secretary or hud secretary or secretary of the army. rick gates testified that he was trying to get him the job. manafort got two different loans from that bank totaling $16 million. for more on today s testimony, joined by elie honig. calk seems to be working with manafort and others.
to be in that theme. you have paul manafort telling this dude that he is trying to roll for a loan. you might be up for secretary. we say, it is grifters grifting grifters. you can t flip, you can t get into a closed secretive criminal organization without some grifter walking you through it. so, you take a page right out of the southern district closing play book. what i find amazing is manafort pulls off the grift. at the end of the day manafort walk the out with $16 million
he has had a falling out with nunberg, how do you think he is preparing himself for this? well, he certainly doesn t seem worried but that is kind of within his m.o. but i mean, they are certainly closing in on him even with kristin davis testifying to the grand jury shortly after she was interviewed by mueller, i think, you know, clear indication that they are looking to bring charges against him and similar to manafort, might be unrelated to russian hacking or collusion. and it could be something in his past and that is what andrew miller might know about. davis and he are quite close. sure. was she around when you were filming the film? the film before the film if you will, we followed her before her run when she was running against eliot spitzer. the campaign fizzled out because