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Manafort was part of the DS "insurance". He was the target of Simpson's WSJ article, written 10 years earlier. The DS/RNC/RHINOS threatened to not formalize TRUMP's GOP NOMINATION, which forced the TRUMP campaign to bring MANAFORT onboard.
It was all part of the DS insurance plan. They must have been salivating when their plan worked, to force the TRUMP campaign to hire MANAFORT to stop the MUTINY of the GOP.
That was the long game, insurance plan.
Read here about Simpson's article from 2007:
Simpson and Jacoby co-wrote a Journal article in April 2007, “How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington.” In it, Smith notes, they identified Paul Manafort as a key player in introducing Russians to Beltway circles. They kept reporting on him over the years. When Manafort was hired to manage the Trump campaign, Simpson — by now running Fusion GPS — made him a focus of his research, and knew enough background information to build a plausible case.
Smith points out that Fusion GPS had few sources within Russia. Nellie Ohr, who also worked with Fusion GPS and happened to be married to a senior official in Obama’s Department of Justice, had not lived in Russia for decades. on the Even former Christopher Steele, the former British spy who was hired to work on the dossier, probably had few good contacts. Simpson’s earlier Journal reporting was probably his best resource. And the CIA and FBI probably had few better sources: as Smith points out, their intelligence on Russia was terrible.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2017/12/21/report-russia-dossier-based-10-year-old-wall-street-journal-articles/