Manafort passports don't support allegations in Guardian story saying he met with Assange in London

Rowan Scarborough:
Paul Manafort’s passports don’t show he entered London in all the years claimed by Guardian newspaper when it said he met secretly with WikiLeaks Julian Assange.

The Guardian said he met with Mr. Assange in London in 2013, 2015 and 2016.

A review of Manafort’s two passports shows he entered Heathrow Airport since 2008 on two occasions, in 2012 and on another time where the customs stamp year is blurred. It appears to be either 2010 or 2016.

Prosecutors entered two of the three passports into evidence.

Manafort says he has never met Mr. Assange.

The liberal Guardian newspaper on Tuesday claimed that Manafort in the spring of 2016 met with Mr. Assange, the WikiLeaks chief, in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The story cited “sources.”

WikiLeaks, which released streams of emails from the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta, immediately denounced the story as a hoax and said it planned to raise money to file a libel suit. Manafort, who was convicted of multiple charges including tax evasion and is in jail, also emphatically denied the story and threatened a libel suit.
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The Guardian should reveal its source for the allegations since there is no evidence to support their story and what evidence does exist refutes it.   The story is reminiscent of the apparently false allegations in the Steele dossier saying Michael Cohen had met with Russians in Eastern Europ.  His passport also shows no such trip and he was apparently in Los Angeles at the time.

Molly Hemingway shows how the media and many on the left are desperate to buy any story that might suggest evidence to support the Russian collusion hoax no matter how preposterous.

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