Not to be confused as Ukraine as it is today. Manafort's actions occurred to place a Russian favored President in leadership. There was a 2004 Ukraine Constitution that was changed to have Yanukovych into power.
China owns $1.168 Trillion in USA national debt as of January 2018.
This Executive Branch administration is about as dirty as it comes. Trump wants to exonerate Viktor Vekselberg from Russian sanctions passed by Congress. Vekselberg has a cousin in NYC. His cousin, Andrew Intrater has an investment firm, Columbus Nova. Cousin or no cousin the Executive Branch should be distancing themselves from the Cohen investigation and instead, Trump is scared. He wants to make "nice, nice" with Vekselberg to win some kind of "favor" in regard to Manafort's trial.
The Dems are not splitting hairs, the Russian oligarch Viktor Vikselberg is affiliated with Michael Cohen and they want answers:
July 27, 2018
Four Democratic senators (click here) want a New York financial firm linked to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg to explain its hiring last year of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney and emerging legal adversary....
When are the Republicans going to censure (click here) President Trump so he cannot continue to cause issues best handled by the investigators and appropriate prosecutors?
The extremist Freedom Caucus wants the impeachment of Rod Rosenstein. Rep. Jim Jordan, the pedophilia guy, pledges to have a vote. House Leader Paul Ryan is saying, the charges by Jordan does not reach the standard of High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
July 6, 2018
Washington (AP) — Long before Viktor Vekselberg (click here) was tied to a scandal over the president and a porn star, the Russian oligarch had been positioning himself to extend his influence in the United States.
Working closely with Andrew Intrater, an American cousin who heads the New York investment management firm Columbus Nova, Vekselberg backed a $1.6 million lobbying campaign to aid Russian interests in Washington. The cousin served as CEO of a Vekselberg company on that project, and the two men have collaborated on numerous other investments involving Vekselberg’s extensive holdings.
In early 2017, shortly before Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, Intrater’s investment firm hired Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, as a consultant.
Now, Intrater’s investment firm is wrestling with the fallout from financial sanctions the U.S. Treasury Department lodged in April against Vekselberg, one of a group of oligarchs tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin....
July 30. 2018
By David Shortell
Washington - Prosecutors (click here) from special counsel Robert Mueller's office said Monday that Paul Manafort earned $60 million from his work as a political consultant in Ukraine and challenged a motion by the former Trump campaign chairman's attorneys to exclude dozens of exhibits on the topic....
