{"id":632258,"date":"2026-07-08T19:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=632258"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:46:26","slug":"i-told-you-so-the-manafort-black-ledger-was-a-fabrication-and-i-proved-it-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=632258","title":{"rendered":"“I Told You So: The Manafort Black Ledger Was A Fabrication \u2014 And I Proved It In 2016”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By L. Todd Wood | CDM Founder & Publisher<\/em><\/p>\n

Ten years ago, I was one of the only journalists in America willing to ask a simple question: was the black ledger fabricated?<\/p>\n

On August 18, 2016, I published a piece in the Washington Times \u2014 “New York Times Evidence Against Trump Advisor Paul Manafort May Not Stand Up In Court<\/a>“<\/em> \u2014 examining the “black ledger” that had supposedly surfaced in Ukraine, showing off-the-books cash payments to Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The story hit like a bomb. Manafort resigned two days later. The Russia collusion narrative was off and running.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t buying it.<\/p>\n

What I reported then \u2014 and what the mainstream media spent years ridiculing \u2014 is now confirmed. Special prosecutor Joe diGenova’s team has obtained bombshell new evidence, confirmed this week by Paul Sperry, that the 2016 election was interfered with not by Russia, but by Ukraine and the United Kingdom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The evidence:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ukrainian officials leaked false Manafort financial records to influence the election<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Ukrainian MP has testified on tape: “I have a tape of these law-enforcement officials saying they did it \u2014 they attempted to overthrow the United States government on behalf of Hillary Clinton in 2016”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Ukraine’s own General Prosecutor stated there was enough evidence to open a criminal investigation<\/p>\n

\u2022 DiGenova has onboarded a dedicated federal investigator focused solely on Ukraine<\/p>\n

The black ledger wasn’t a discovery. It was a fabrication \u2014 an intelligence operation, laundered through the New York Times.<\/p>\n

The Day After I Published, The UK Trail Emerged<\/strong><\/p>\n

The day after my 2016 WT piece ran, reporting began to surface that British intelligence fingerprints were on the operation. I wrote about this dynamic again just yesterday \u2014 “The Mockingbird Media Has Simply Shifted To Podcast World<\/a>“<\/em> \u2014 documenting how the same coordinated narrative infrastructure never disappeared. It just moved platforms. Same hands. Same agenda. New microphones.<\/p>\n

The UK’s refusal to participate in the current Iran campaign is not coincidental. It is consistent with a decade-long pattern of the City of London working to frustrate American national sovereignty under Trump.<\/p>\n

What DiGenova’s Investigation Means<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joe diGenova is a former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. He prosecuted spies. When he says his team has bombshell evidence, that is a predicate \u2014 not a rumor.<\/p>\n

The Russia collusion hoax paralyzed the first Trump term for three years, destroyed Paul Manafort, and provided cover for the actual foreign interference by Ukraine and the UK. The reckoning, when it comes, will be one of the greatest political scandals in American history.<\/p>\n

I reported on it in 2016. Not many others did.<\/p>\n

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