I think this is the first time that has been mentionned. Do you know if other politicians are aware of this ? and mostly how do they react when they get informed of the possibility ?
The assumpton seems to have some basis. http://www.fastcompany.com/3057495/...on-trump-shows-complexity-of-alleged-mob-ties http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/donald-trump-advisor-ties-mafia-article-1.2461229 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uilding-Trump-Tower-keeping-unions-quiet.html The good thing about your election is everything is scrutinized: it is better for Americans to know who they are sending to the White House.
There has been press on the matter for some time and in varying amount of detail. I'm still waiting for some extreme vetting of Citizen Donald.
People in business can unwillingly get involved into "unorthodox" things. Surely, Trump must have known that he would be vetted by ALL Us agencies. I think every countries are reporting what they know about Trump or his associates. Manafort, I am reading was deeply involved with some very cruel dictators https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/27/paul-manafort-donald-trump-campaign-past-clients and also lately with some foreigners with non-recommandable ties. We are not so keen on politicians with "unrecommandable ties" as sooner or later it leads to civilians deaths ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/18/sarkozy-kickbacks-pakistan-arms-sales) Could not the Republicans vet their candidates before they present themselves. All these stories make overseas people wonder what type of party is the Republican one.
Geez!!!! Looks like Manafort was part of a Reagan and Bush team. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/31/donald-trump-paul-manafort-riva-levinson-book I am now also starting to understand why the somalians turned up in the US. This Manafort is a real revelation https://www.bloomberg.com/view/arti...hired-his-next-scandal-lobbyist-paul-manafort http://www.usnews.com/opinion/artic...-first-but-hires-a-long-time-foreign-lobbyist From the Financial Times : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6caf03fa-62dc-11e6-8310-ecf0bddad227.html#axzz4HXbLhnHv http://newsshine.com/foreign-press/...aul-manafort-a-campaign-manager-of-trump.html
Even in the Gulf states, Manafort is getting some interests http://gulfnews.com/news/americas/usa/us-elections-2016/profile-of-paul-manafort-1.1880308 In Africa, all the countries where he helped dctators are having wide titles on Manafort! Worldwide French investigative judges are feared as they are known not hesitate to emprison foreign politicians as well as inhouse one : In 2013, "A US political consultant has admitted being paid by an intermediary in 1994 arms sales for advising the campaign of French presidential hopeful Édouard Balladur. The admission may shed new light on the scandal known as the “Karachi affair”." politicians.http://www.france24.com/en/20130804...consultant-new-clues-balladur-france-pakistan
The unsuspecting American public had no idea that Manifort was a long time Republican lobbyst who operated overseas for dictators and other unsavory characters. http://fortune.com/2016/08/15/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-paul-manafort/ "Refira-se que Paul Manafort foi director da empresa Black, Manafort, Stone e Kelly, que tinha laços estreitos com as administrações Ronald Reagan e George HW Bush (pai) e com líderes republicanos no Congresso." http://club-k.net/index.php?option=...ro-anos&catid=23:politica&lang=pt&Itemid=1123 http://www.uticaod.com/zz/news/2016...afort-took-money-from-shadowy-foreign-leaders https://warisboring.com/donald-trum...dealers-and-dictators-261626a143d8#.n72cad165 "n 1999, Pakistan and India fought a limited war after Pakistani troops infiltrated the high mountains of the Kargil district of Kashmir and Indian forces mobilized to expel them. In 1993, Manafort was paid $700,000 dollars from 1990 to 1995 to film a documentary supporting the cause of Kashmiri separatists, supposedly for an organization known as the “Kashmiri-American Council.” In reality, the council was a front for the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence Agency, a shadowy spy agency known for its support of terrorists. ISI played a central role in organizing the Taliban army in Afghanistan, and is widely believed to have supported the insurgency against the American troops during the 2000s. An FBI prosecutor said Manafort was participating in a “false flag operation” on behalf of ISI. Manafort denied knowing who had funded the film, but accounts from Pakistan indicate he was well aware who the actual sponsors of the film were."
Manafort is actually featured in a book written in 1997 His nefarious operations are described page 120/121 https://books.google.fr/books?id=cI...oAQgzMAM#v=onepage&q=manafort "unita"&f=false
Trump to Receive Classified Intelligence Briefing Donald Trump will receive a classified intelligence briefing on Wednesday in New York, a federal official confirms. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will conduct the briefing, making use of a secure FBI facility. Such briefings have been conducted since the 1950s for presidential candidates in the general election. But Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said last month at the Aspen Security Conference that the briefings during the campaign are "fairly general." Related: Could Candidate Donald Trump Be Denied National Security Briefings? ... http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...d-intelligence-briefing/ar-BBvGMKG?li=BBnbcA1