Rachel Maddow related Trump’s determined want for money and Paul Manafort’s life work of spending Russian oligarch cash to advance Putin’s pursuits.
Maddow stated:
His function in life at the moment was extracting cash from Russian pursuits, from pro-Kremlin pursuits to serve the pursuits of Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. That was his life’s work.
Paul Manafort has introduced right this moment as coming again to the Trump marketing campaign once more on the identical day that Donald Trump additionally pronounces that he’s out of cash and he can’t safe a bond to pay the half billion court docket judgment that’s due from him one week from right this moment. That could be a court docket judgment. That’s not some financial institution being requested please pay us again. That’s a court docket judgment. If he doesn’t pay it, the brand new York lawyer basic can begin padlocking his buildings and taking every thing he owns.
As of 1 week from right this moment. Donald Trump has by no means been extra desperately in want of cash than he’s proper this sec right this moment, the day it’s reported that this man, for all his baggage, for all his ex con sparkle, this man is coming again, the man who makes a speciality of extracting cash from Kremlin-aligned pursuits to serve Vladimir Putin’s long-term objectives. I ponder why right this moment of all days is the day we study that Paul Manafort is coming again.
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Video clips:
Rachel #Maddow “Paul Manafort has announced today as coming back to the Trump campaign again on the same day that Donald Trump also announced that he is out of money and he cannot secure a bond.” pic.twitter.com/A2au0Ln1Jz
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 19, 2024
Rachel #Maddow “Donald Trump has never been more desperately in need of money than he is right this second today… I wonder why today, of all days, is the day we learn that Paul Manafort is coming back.” pic.twitter.com/vwnACWbRay
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 19, 2024
This isn’t a troublesome one to attach the dots on. Trump is broke, and all of the sudden, the cash man for Russian oligarchs who advance Putin’s pursuits returns to the Donald Trump presidential marketing campaign.
It’s not a coincidence that Manafort is returning.
The distinction is that the American folks have seen this film earlier than. Those who are paying attention know why Manafort is in the Trump campaign, and what it means for American nationwide safety that he’s there.
Donald Trump is working the 2016 playbook yet again, together with leaning on assist from Putin to get him into the White Home.
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