{"id":36986,"date":"2018-08-23T16:59:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T21:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36986"},"modified":"2018-08-23T16:59:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T21:59:54","slug":"fixers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36986","title":{"rendered":"Fixers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If there\u2019s one thing that is exposed in the sorry not-so-fairy tale of former Trump aides Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, it\u2019s that Washington is a city run by fixers. Who often make substantial amounts of money. Many though by no means all, start out as lawyers and figure out that let\u2019s say \u2018the edges of what\u2019s legal\u2019 can be quite profitable.<\/p>\n

And it helps to know when one steps across that edge, so having attended law school is a bonus. Not so much to stop when stepping across the edge, but to raise one\u2019s fees. There\u2019s a lot of dough waiting at the edge of the law. None of this should surprise any thinking person. Manafort and Cohen are people who think in millions, with an easy few hundred grand thrown in here and there.<\/p>\n

But sometimes the fixers happen to come under scrutiny of the law, like when they get entangled in a Special Counsel investigation. Both Manafort and Cohen now rue the day they became involved with Trump, or rather, the day he was elected president and solicited much more severe scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Would either ever have been accused of what they face today had Trump lost to Hillary? It\u2019s not too likely. They just gambled and lost. But there are many more just like them who will never be charged with anything. Still, a new fixer name has popped up the last few days who may, down the line, not be so lucky.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s not even because Lanny Davis is a registered foreign agent for Dmytro Firtash, a pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarch wanted by the US government. After all, both Manafort and Cohen have their contacts in that part of the world. Manafort made tens of millions advising then-president Yanukovich in the Ukraine before the US coup dethroned the latter. Cohen\u2019s wife is Ukrainian-American.<\/p>\n

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Fixers Gustave Caillebotte Young man by his window 1875 If there\u2019s one thing that is exposed in the sorry not-so-fairy tale of former Trump aides Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, it\u2019s that Washington is a city run by fixers. Who often make substantial amounts of money. Many though by no means all, start out as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[21373,3741,21374,21375,21376,3745,16767,16768,13924,21377,21378,16769,5177,10522],"class_list":["post-36986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-avenatti","tag-clinton","tag-cohen","tag-fixers","tag-lanny-davis","tag-law","tag-manafort","tag-mueller","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-sharks","tag-squid","tag-swamp","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36987,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36986\/revisions\/36987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}