Read it

in light of what we know now

a Svengali like charmer

had a falling out with McCain in 2008

allegations of misuse of funds in for another candidate https://twitter.com/Pimpernell13/status/1360662820510171136
He left McCain, Snyder and Cahill campaigns under a cloud of financial malfeasance and self dealing
He was more or less let go from the Cahill campaign, and spent the rest of his time trying to throw the race to an opponent of Cahills. Sound familiar. And Cahill was afraid to fire him because of what he might do. Sound familiar?
Written Dec 2015, it talks about his effort to woo Trump

damn page keeps crashing
Remember

this was published Dec 2015
He thought Trump was a sucker, a novice he could bilk for insane amounts of money like he did the others

nope
Now Weaver and his proxies are making their pitch to team Trump in May 2015. And asked for so much money he showed them the door

and in Dec 2015, this story pops up in Politico
Weaver eventually had to go with his second choice. The fool Kasich. Remember how well Kasich did? Not well

did you know his father was a milkman ?
Kasich is a dope. By then Weaver was widely known, and widely disliked
Interesting phrasing
Rove recently said he told people about Weaver, but no one would believe him. They thought he was just dogging a competitor
He left the McCain camp after arguing over money with Rick Davis. He has a long and rich history of misuse of funds and excessive spending
After McCain fired him, he floated a story in the NYT that McCain was having an affair
His clients as a who’s who of failed campaigns. McCain. Kasich. Huntsman
He ripped Huntsman off.

same thing over and over

expense to subcontractors, who are are really you
Billed 20,000

Expensed 200,000

over and over again

swamp living
But just like Cahill, Huntsman was afraid to fire Weaver because he thought Weaver would torch his campaign
Every politician who wanted to fire Weaver was afraid to because of his amazing media reach. They knew he would ruin them in the press

who were his media “go-tos”?

Halperin and Heilemann

currently of the HBO show “The Circus”, and avid consumers and purveyors of Trump/Russia
SOMEONE NEEDS TO ASK HALPERIN AND HEILEMANN ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH WEAVER
Weaver is tight with Morning Joe, now Mika and Joe on MSNBC

SOMEONE ASK MIKA AND JOE ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH WEAVER AND WHAT THEY KNEW
Weaver leaked private emails about the campaign from Huntsmans wife to him, and gave them to Heileman and Halperin, who used them to torch Huntsman in their book
Weaver is described as a political vampire, draining campaigns of cash and then disappearing
And that’s it. A lot of common themes.

charm, seduction, media reach, using the media to stab the candidate on the back, and sucking campaigns of cash until they fail

so all Weavers media enablers

why so quiet?
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