Posted on 03/23/2022 11:29:06 AM PDT by Coronal
Former Trump campaign chairman and presidential-pardon recipient Paul Manafort was blocked from leaving the country Sunday because his U.S. passport was not valid, a Miami-Dade police spokesperson told NBC News on Wednesday.
Manafort, 72, was attempting to fly from Miami to Dubai on a 9:10 p.m. Emirates airline flight when he was denied boarding because of an issue with his passport, the police spokesperson said, confirming a Knewz.com report.
The spokesperson said Customs and Border Protection officials on the scene denied his boarding. A CBP spokesman declined comment, saying, "For privacy reasons, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is unable to discuss a specific individual’s arrival or departure into or from the United States."
Manafort’s passport had been revoked upon his arrest in October 2017 as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, though Manafort was never charged with cooperating with the Russians.
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Rino GOPe forced on Trump campaign. Canned with alacrity.
But he’s always described as some sort of Trump ally when he never was.
I realize he got screwed by Muller, but Manafort sends my creep factor into overdrive.
Seems to work on our southern border!
Regards,
That may be true but the issue here is much greater. This is the state perverting it’s legitimate police powers into classic police state activity to effectively imprison a citizen by controlling the citizens movements for a political or ideological reasons. If Satan held a US passport it would be all the same.
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That's not true at all.
Of course it’s true.
What part isn’t?
Pretty strange.
What could be the problem with his passport?
99.9% chance this is partisan hacks in DOJ abusing Manafort and nothing more.
It’s very strange. The revoked passport should have been restored as a matter of course when the investigation wrapped up and he was not charged.
Parts of our Declaration of Independence are sounding eerily familiar...
I would think an expired passport would be invalid. Other than that, an outstanding felony warrant or being under bench warrant or under court order to not leave the US. Other than that? Who can say?
All of it...where did you get that drivel?
Manafort was a long time business associate of Roger Stone.
The feds invalidated his passport plain and simple no matter what the expiration date.
He’s still banned from out of country travel.
But he wasn’t convicted of anything.
The feds don’t g.a.s. All they care is that every box on the SOP checked. One was inactivating his passport.
No one that was involved cared if they screwed him up later.
Mueller
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