“It’s also presidential today to have him and Governor Pence going to Louisiana in a decidedly nonpolitical event, no press allowed, going to help people on the ground who are in need”, Conway argued. At the time, European and American leaders were pressuring Ukraine to free her.
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Gates personally directed the work of two prominent Washington lobbying firms in the matter, the emails show.
“It was not me, that’s all Donald Trump”, Conway said in an interview with David Muir on Good Morning America Friday.
Paul Manafort, who was appointed Donald Trump’s campaign manager in the wake of Corey Lewandowski’s resignation, has himself resigned. Buzzfeed reported McSherry’s connection to the lobbying effort Thursday. He said it was among his efforts to “restore honor to government”.
Manafort and Gates have previously said they were not doing work that required them to notify the Justice Department.
According to theNew York Times, Kalyuzhny was a founding board member of a non-governmental organization in Brussels that channeled over $1 million to Washington in an effort not only to US support for Yanukovych’s government, but also to trash the pro-Western Yulia Tymoshenko, who lost the 2010 presidential run-off with Yanukovych and was then jailed on corruption charges after a trial widely condemned as rigged and politically motivated.
Party of Regions was Ukraine’s ruling political party until early 2014, when Kremlin-friendly now former-President Vikctor Yanukovych was toppled amid mass protests calling for the country to move closer to the West. The fall of Yanukovich’s government due to claims of corruption and close ties to Russian Federation led to Russia’s eventual invasion and subsequent annexation of Crimea. Gates was directing actions and seeking information during the project using an email address at DMP International, which he still uses. Earlier on Friday, a Ukrainian lawmaker offered more details of what he said were records of cash payments allocated to Manafort by Yanukovich’s party.
The 42-year-old, who is considered the brains behind Mr Trump’s successful primary run, reportedly had a contentious relationship with several campaign staffers, including then-strategist Mr Manafort.
Manafort has at least one strong New Jersey tie.
Yesterday Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) unveiled an explanation to the mentioning of the Paul Manafort’s name in “secret accounting ledgers” of Victor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions. Manafort has vehemently denied the allegations.
Manafort installed many of his associates in the upper echelons of the campaign, signaled his support for an allied super PAC and crushed attempts to embarrass Trump at the Republican convention in Cleveland. Per the law, all lobbyists have to disclose to the government that they are representing foreign interest groups.
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Manafort, a longtime Washington fixture, was originally brought on in the spring to save Trump from a defeat at the Republican convention should Trump have failed to win enough delegates to clinch a first-ballot nomination.
