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Corrupt Government Title: Paul Manafort and Roger Stone "have a lot of explaining to do'' Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Connecticut natives Paul Manafort and Roger Stone "have a lot of explaining to do'' regarding their ties to Donald Trump's presidential campaign and possible connections to the Russian government that are being investigated by the FBI. Malloy said that collusion and complicity with a foreign government to change the outcome of an American election would be "treason.'' But he said he was not accusing Manafort, Stone or anyone else of treason. "It is becoming increasingly clear that representatives of the president were complicit in the Russians' desire to affect our election's outcome,'' Malloy said Wednesday. "Most people would call that treason. If, in fact, the Trump campaign and its representatives cooperated with the Russians to affect the outcome of an election, that, by definition, is treason. I think people will ultimately be held accountable for that.'' FBI director James Comey said publicly for the first time this week that investigators are searching for evidence of collusion between the campaign and agents of the Russian government. Manafort served as Trump's campaign manager from March to August 2016, and his name was mentioned 28 times Monday during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee. "Let us not forget that the president made public statements inviting the Russians to hack various entities that ultimately were hacked and to share that information,'' Malloy said. "He did that in a public place. Americans made a substantial mistake in ignoring that complicit behavior of the president, but he knew what he was doing and others around the president knew what he was doing.'' Stone, a native of Norwalk, has sharply rejected insinuations about collusion with the Russians. He described the situation as "a scandal with no evidence'' in an interview with The New York Times this week. "There is still not an iota of proof that anyone on the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians,'' Stone said. After The Times reported that Manafort had multiple contacts with top Russian intelligence agents while Trump was running for president, Manfort responded that it was "absurd'' and that he had "never knowingly spoken to Russian intelligence officers.'' Manafort has not spoken much publicly about exactly what he did in the Ukraine, but he provided details last year in an interview with The Courant. He has been criticized for being a political consultant for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who has had close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump has repeatedly traded compliments with Putin, a former KGB officer who has clashed on major issues with the United States at times during two terms as prime minister and two terms as president. "When people say that I was involved in a pro-Putin administration, number one, they don't understand that Yanukovych and Putin were enemies for most of the four years of his term,'' Manafort told The Courant. "Number two, the main accomplishment of Yanukovych was to set the stage for Ukraine to be in Europe, which is pro-American and pro-Western, not pro-Russian.'' Manafort emphasized that he has never represented clients against American interests. "There are a lot of campaigns in Western democracies that I've done that you don't read about," he said. "They were always in concert with U.S. foreign policy, never contrary to it. That's what gets lost in the media messaging." Poster Comment: Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
Yawn. Call me when half the demoncrap party is put in jail including Clinton's, Obama, Schamuck and Pelosi!!!!
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