Its the other way around. Trump's campaign manager is laundering sponsor money in Ukraine. And it seems Mr Manafort took an active part in soiling Ukrainian-Russian relations along with Ms Nuland :-)
You make the supposition that the choice is obvious between the two but you don't acknowledge that the NY times unabashedly supports HRC. So, once you adjust your prior to that information? The choice becomes a lot less clear.
1) Trump has praised Putin numerous times, calling him a far better leader than Obama.
2) Donald Trump has taken an anti-NATO stance.
3) Donald Trump's campaign's ONLY intervention in the entire GOP platform was to remove anti-Putin language from the platform re: Ukraine.
4) Not only that, but just days before the RNC, Carter Paige, one of Trump's foreign policy advisers traveled to Russia and gave a speech attacking America's policies towards Russia, calling America's focus on democratization and fighting inequality "hypocritical."
5) The Intelligence community has confirmed that Russian Intelligence is responsible for the hacking of the DNC, which is an obvious attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign.
6) Furthermore, Donald Trump called on Russia to release/hack any emails they could get their hands on.
7) Trump's campaign manager has ties to pro-Putin oligarchs who were propped up by the Kremlin. This isn't new information. As long ago as 2005, there were calls to McCain's people to try and do something about Manafort because he was working against American interests in the region.
8) Now we know Manafort potentially received a cash payment of more than $12 million. Which, I mean, seeing how good he is at running a campaign is clearly money based on competence!
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 21.7 ms ] thread2) Donald Trump has taken an anti-NATO stance.
3) Donald Trump's campaign's ONLY intervention in the entire GOP platform was to remove anti-Putin language from the platform re: Ukraine.
4) Not only that, but just days before the RNC, Carter Paige, one of Trump's foreign policy advisers traveled to Russia and gave a speech attacking America's policies towards Russia, calling America's focus on democratization and fighting inequality "hypocritical."
5) The Intelligence community has confirmed that Russian Intelligence is responsible for the hacking of the DNC, which is an obvious attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign.
6) Furthermore, Donald Trump called on Russia to release/hack any emails they could get their hands on.
7) Trump's campaign manager has ties to pro-Putin oligarchs who were propped up by the Kremlin. This isn't new information. As long ago as 2005, there were calls to McCain's people to try and do something about Manafort because he was working against American interests in the region.
8) Now we know Manafort potentially received a cash payment of more than $12 million. Which, I mean, seeing how good he is at running a campaign is clearly money based on competence!