The Guardian’s Manafort Story Looks Like An Effort To Create Trump Collusion Narrative Three

1. Manafort, who pleaded guilty earlier this year in a Washington D.C. federal court to two criminal counts related to foreign lobbying, denies lying to the FBI or the special counsel’s office, but The Guardian’s story now gives the public cause to imagine that Manafort’s purported prevarication concerned his supposed meeting with Assange in March 2016.
2. Here, the public would be wise to remember that The Guardian’s story represents the third attempt to connect the Trump campaign to the Russian hacking of the DNC emails in an effort to convince the American public that the Republican presidential candidate colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
3. On Tuesday The Guardian ran an exclusive claiming that “Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign.” According to The Guardian, Manafort met with the WikiLeaks’ founder at the embassy three times—in 2013, 2015, and in spring 2016.
4. But Mueller’s team needed to tie Stone to Assange before moving up the ladder to the Trump campaign, and the special counsel’s office was looking to Corsi to make that connection, according to the Daily Caller.
5. Just the day before, in a court filing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team claimed Manafort violated his plea agreement by lying to federal agents “on a variety of subject matters” that would be detailed later in a sentencing submission.
6. Corsi told One America News Network that the special counsel wanted him to testify that he was “the conduit to WikiLeaks and Assange for Roger Stone, who in turn had a conduit to the campaign.” But “it just isn’t so,” Corsi told the conservative news network.
7. The Guardian’s story represents the third attempt to convince the American public that the Republican presidential candidate colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/29/guardians-manafort-story-far-just-another-evidence-less-spygate-smear-strategy/