Threatening a quote, blood blood blood bath if he doesnt win in 2024. That was just one weekend, the first full weekend since the general election matchup became official, and it all happened in the course of a Single Campaign rally. Here is trump in ohio. We are going to put a 100 tariff on every single car that comes across the line and youre not going to be able to sell those. If i get elected. Now, if i dont get elected, itll be a bloodbath, that will be the least of it. Itll be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it but they will not sell those cars. Trumps bloodbath, and comes amid a campaign in which he has vowed to be a, quote, dictator to rivals and to seek, quote, retribution which is why his critics are skeptical that campaigns Cleanup Effort claiming trump was trying to say, quote, bidens policies would create an economic bloodbath for the economic industry and the autoworkers. The campaign was forced to respond because the bloodbath comments were a big s
expensive lawyers that money can buy. if you got the money to spend, why not spend it on that? 2017, around the time the new york times reporting manafort s mysterious financial ties. federal prosecutors argued in court why it is so important to get their hands-on the cash. why they needed to have an extradited to the united states and why he needed to go on trial in this country and their climbs to the court in the summer of 2018 including this startling assertion from prosecutors. firtash has been identified by united states law enforcement as two upper-echelon associates of russian organized crime. their prosecution will disrupt this organized crime group.
time has been the big question. i want to step away from the legalities for a second. this is a truly astounding moment where we re talking about plea agreements, people dropping out of plea deals. these people were like a chairman of the presidential campaign that won. you know, people, conspiracy theorist, a joint defense agreement with the president s lawyers who believes 9/11 was an inside job. who, the u.s. government? i don t know. it s amazing. > that and the whole birtherism thing. a number of other things. matthew, the wall street journal is reporting manafort lied to mueller about his communications with konstantin kilimnik, a manafort business contact who prosecutors allege has ties to the same russian military intel service that hacked the democrats. how significant would that contact be? that s hard to say. there s a theory that manafort
on hillary clinton we want to talk to you about. who knew, how far up it went? whether donald trump knew at the time has been the big question. i want to step away from the legalities for a second. this is a truly astounding moment where we re talking about plea agreements, people dropping out of plea deals. these people were like a chairman of the presidential campaign that won. you know, people, conspiracy theorist, a joint defense agreement with the president s lawyers who believes 9/11 was an inside job. who, the u.s. government? i don t know. it s amazing. > that and the whole birtherism thing. a number of other things. matthew, the wall street journal is reporting manafort lied to mueller about his communications with konstantin kilimnik, a manafort business contact who prosecutors allege has ties to the same russian military intel service that
i m wondering if you know that the meeting took place and if you remain confident in the white house s repeated denials that no campaign officials were involved in the discussions about plans to release john podesta s e-mails? certainly i remain confident in the white house s assertion that the president was involved in no wrongdoing, was not part of any collusion. the things that have to do with mr. manafort i refer you to his attorneys. no collusion. when cnn s jim acosta asked this next question, listen to the answer. would the president recommend that mr. manafort begin to cooperate, offer full cooperation, to the special counsel s office? we can only speak to what our role is in that process and not only has the president but the entire administration has been fully cooperative with the special counsel s office providing hours and hours of sit downs as well as over 4 million pages of documents. we continue to be cooperative