Who Planted Manafort?
Anon mentioned a few breads ago that maybe NoName was who planted Manafort. So I did some checking. Found a connection thru Manafort's old business partner Rick Davis. Davis Left the firm to join NoNames campaign for 2008. NoNme is very anti-Russia and Manafort is Pro-Russia.
Would NoName try to frame Manafort because his old business partner ran NoNames campaign and failed? Seems far fetched. Either way, below are articles I came across re: Manafort/NoName. Judge for yourself.
The arrangement ended up being quite lucrative for Davis, who worked on McCain’s campaign without pay. In June 2008, The Washington Post reported that Davis Manafort “earned at least $2.2 million in part through their close association with McCain, his campaign and his causes.”
Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch connected in press reports Wednesday to former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, has a long history of connections with senior U.S. politicians, including Senator John McCain and former senator Bob Dole.
In addition, the Washington Post reported in January 2008 that Rick Davis, who was then the manager of Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, helped arrange a drinks-and-dinner meeting in January 2006 between Deripaska and a small group of U.S. senators, including McCain, near Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum was taking place.
According to the newspaper, seven months later, in August 2006, Davis, McCain and Deripaska attended a dinner in Montenegro, whose governing party had a contract with the lobbying firm that Davis ran together with Paul Manafort.
https://www.voanews.com/a/oligarch-oleg-deripaska-tied-to-paul-manafort-has-past-links-to-senior-us-politicians/3777379.html
During the 2008 campaign, the Davis Manafort firm disclosed through its U.S. partner Daniel J. Edelman Inc., that it was working for the political party in Ukraine supporting Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who was backed by Putin.
Manafort was first questioned by the FBI about his Russian and Ukrainian ties in 2014, two years before he became Trump’s campaign manager, and agents probed him on how he first came to work for Deripaska through McCain’s top political adviser, a source confirmed to Circa.
“Davis repeatedly tried to bring Manafort into the McCain campaign and we were able to stop it and even have Davis removed for his ties to pro-Russian efforts,” Weaver said. “But this was short-lived as Davis actually and literally cried to the Senator every day for weeks until John relented and allowed Davis back.”
https://www.circa.com/story/2017/06/21/heres-the-russia-influence-controversy-that-john-mccain-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about
Before 2008, Yanukovych’s political party, called the Party of Regions, worked closely with a lobbying firm called Davis Manafort (out of Delaware) comprising of Rick Davis and Paul Manafort. In 2008 Rick Davis became McCain’s presidential campaign manager.
The connections between Yanukovych and Republican campaign insiders does not end at Manafort’s doorstep. Vin Weber, Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisor in 2012, also lobbied for Yanukovych through the European Center for Modern Ukraine.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/03/mccain_manafort_and_the_ukraine.html