Donald J Trump Scandal

Many US politicians that had met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak have all been in the news for colluding with the Russian government to hack the US election.

Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak was the reason that Michael Flynn got fired, he was the reason Attorney Jeff Sessions had to face the US congress and recuse himself from the Trump-Russia investigation, and Jared Kushner, Trump son-in-law is also under scrutiny after he failed to disclose his meeting with Kislyak.

The controversial diplomat has now been called home by its government rather than install him in a senior role at the country’s U.N. mission in New York. He has also served as the country's ambassador for 10 years, but his name will remain in the US media for another few months as the US intelligence investigates Russia collusion in the 2016 elections.

The country's deputy foreign minister, Anatoly Antonov is said to take over Kislyak job.

Another information from the White House revealed that President Trump bragged to the Russian on how he fired the director of the FBI, James Comey, and the sack of the director had relieved of him a "great pressure".

President Trump said;

I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document,I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.

I’m not under investigation.

President Trump said these words while he was in a meeting on May 10 with Russian officials, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov and  Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey I. Kislyak, who had come into the President Oval office, just a day after James Comey was fired. A statement that justifies and proves that James Comey was fired because of his investigation, which seems to be yielding results against the personnel of the Trump's administration.

Press secretary of the White House, Sean Spicer did not dispute the latest comment. Sean said that Comey had politicized his investigation, and his investigation is also bars good diplomacy the President intended to have with the Russian government.

Sean said;

By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia’s actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia. The investigation would have always continued, and obviously, the termination of Comey would not have ended it. Once again, the real story is that our national security has been undermined by the leaking of private and highly classified conversations.

Another day, another Donald Trump Russia scandal, as former campaign manager, Paul Manifort was found to have secretly worked for the Russia billionaire with plans to "greatly benefit the Putin Government," and as been doing so since 2005 under Republican President Bush, even at the time the US-Russia relations grew worse.

According to the AP, a confidential strategy by Manifort proposed a strategic plan that would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage in the United States, Europe and former Soviet republics in a way that will benefit the Putin government.

Manifort proposed the strategy to aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaska and a very close ally of Putin, and his proposal was signed by Oleg, which was  a $10 million annual contract. The relationship between the two business parties was maintained until 2009, and this is also confirmed via interviews with people, and also a source familiar with the contract.

In his memo to Deprisaka, Manifort wrote;

We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success The effort, Manafort wrote, "will be offering a great service that can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government.

The White House brushed the news aside, but it raised a fresh alarm at the Congress. 

Press secretary Sean Spicer said that Candidate Trump was not aware of Manifort involvement with Oleg Deripaska, he said;

  To suggest that the president knew who his clients were from 10 years ago is a bit insane

Paul Manifort plan was well laid out in the document obtained by Associated press, and also documents that show wire transfers of  millions of dollars, but how much work was done by Manifort is unknown. This is also contradictory to what the Trump administration and Manifort said, as Manifort once said he never worked for the Russian government.

On Wednesday, Manifort confirmed he had worked with Deripaska, but denied his work was pro-Russia, and he said;

I look forward to meeting with those conducting serious investigations of these issues.

Mr Deripaska official representative also responded to the allegation in a statement said;

There was an agreement between Mr. Deripaska and Mr. Manafort to provide investment consulting services related to business interests of Mr Deripaska which now is a subject to legal claims.

Two Republicans senators, and also a critic of Donald Trump Russia connection, Sen John McCain and Senator Graham commented on the recent revelation of Manifort.

Senator McCain said, this is a "serious stuff" and asked for more evidence into the issue, by using an independent congressional committee to investigate Trump, "Other shoes will drop" he said.

Senator Graham of South Carolina said;

Clearly, if he's getting millions of dollars from a billionaire close to Putin, to basically undermine democratic movements, that's something I'd want to know about. I doubt if Trump knew about it.