deripaska. of course kilimnik is also accused of being part of this big massive money laundering experience that paul manafort and rick gates are accused of engaging in over the last decade. so kilimnik was manafort s right-hand man, along with rick gates and now manafort is looking like he s increasingly isolated. kilimnik is in moscow. doesn t look like he s going to be extradited to the united states any time soon, if ever and gates has flipped and the two journalists that manafort reached out to trying to get them to change their testimony, the witness tampering charge that we saw mueller bring against manafort who went directly to prosecutors or went directly to the fbi and said paul manafort is reaching out to us, we don t want anything to do with this. so you have manafort now increasingly on his own and he is particularly stung of course by the flipping of rick gates
a murderer s row of 19 prosecutors with subpoena power, money laundering experience, and on the other side you have two guys with yellow pads of post-its. manafort is the regime, rick gates is the made man and papadopoulos is the wise guy in the social club in brooklyn. if they flip, there is no telling where this could go. i think donald trump is beginning to realize that the walls are closing in. dan, the white house has said this all happened a long time ago, long before the trump campaign. does that necessarily vindicate anyone in the trump orbit? wasn t he supposed to hire the best people, have the best team ever? right. it raises real questions of judgement about the decision to hire manafort. people in and around washington knew he had been in bed with very sketchy people, dictators, people sort of on the margins of democracy. so it was a very strange choice
hours show they re more and more desperate. he knows the walls are closing in. i interviewed steve bannon for the new chapter of my book. and bannon was typically unfiltered. one of the things he said was that whether or not there was collusion here, you really have a murder s row of 19 prosecutors with subpoena power, money laundering experience. and the other side has two guy was yellow pads and post it. rick gates is the maid man and papadopoulos is the wise guy in the social club in brooklyn. if they flip there is no telling where it goes. donald trump is beginning to realize this this the walls are closing in. dan, the white house said this is this happened a long time ago before the trump campaign. but does that necessarily vindicate anyone in the trump orbit? wasn t he supposed to hire the best people, have the best team ever.