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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe time Bill Taylor clashed with Paul Manafort in 2006
Taylor testifies today. By all appearances he's a good, honest man and a straight shooter.
The writing on the wall for this story has been there for years.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/trump-campaign-chair-paul-manafort-s-pro-russia-work-is-probed-in-two-bombshell-reports.html
Manafort understood how to accentuate divisions in the Ukrainian electorate. He had overseen Reagans Southern strategy; he understood the power of cultural polarization. His polling showed that Yanukovych could consolidate his base by stoking submerged grievances. Even though there was little evidence of the mistreatment of Russian language speakers by the Ukrainian state, he encouraged his candidate to make an issue of imagined abuses to rally their base. To the same end, he instructed Yanukovych to rage against NATO, which he did by condemning joint operations the alliance was conducting in Crimea.
When American Ambassador William Taylor arrived in Kiev in 2006, he summoned Manafort to a meeting in his office. Manafort would become a fixture in the offices of American ambassadors to Ukraine, the U.S. governments primary conduit to Yanukovych and the pro-Russian camp. As Taylor told a group of American democracy activists just after the meeting, he had asked Manafort to tamp down Yanukovychs criticisms of the joint operations NATO was conducting with the Ukrainians. The implications of his ask were clear: The interests of American security were hurt by such rhetoric. American to American, Im asking you to talk to him. Manafort scoffed at the notion. He bluntly announced that he wouldnt ask Yanukovych to dial back the rhetoric. It polled too well.
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The time Bill Taylor clashed with Paul Manafort in 2006 (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Oct 2019
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Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)1. Good find, thanks for posting
Manafort scoffed at Mr. Taylor, so have an extra shitty day there in prison, you scummy fuck traitor
emulatorloo
(44,187 posts)2. Great read, thank you. Rec
Kid Berwyn
(14,971 posts)3. History
Where the future comes from.
Thank you for a very important article, Tommy_Carcetti!