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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump
President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who owed his election to, as an American diplomat put it, an extreme makeover Mr. Manafort oversaw, bolted the country in the face of violent street protests. He found sanctuary in Russia and never returned, as his patron, President Vladimir V. Putin, proceeded to dismember Ukraine, annexing Crimea and fomenting a war in two other provinces that continues.
Mr. Manafort was undaunted.
Within months of his clients political demise, he went to work seeking to bring his disgraced party back to power, much as he had Mr. Yanukovych himself nearly a decade earlier. Mr. Manafort has already had some success, with former Yanukovych loyalists and some Communists forming a new bloc opposing Ukraines struggling pro-Western government.
And now Mr. Manafort has taken on a much larger campaign, seeking to turn Donald J. Trump into a winning presidential candidate.
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liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)FarPoint
(12,409 posts)I have been most intrigued by this background on Manfort.... Connect the dots and follow the money...
kentuck
(111,098 posts)There needs to be more publicity about Manafort's past.
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)They continue to ignore this major detail as the invite him repeatedly to speak/ lie on their shows for Trump...
spanone
(135,841 posts)FarPoint
(12,409 posts)Demand for immediate Congressional Hearing just for starters...
Doodley
(9,092 posts)didn't know anything about the RNC changing the platform on Ukraine. Trump gets what he wants - his ago is fed, he becomes more famous than imaginable, while not really making the effort to learn much, while Manafort gets what he wants that benefits Putin. But who is Manafort really serving? Putin or America?
kentuck
(111,098 posts)Manafort is probably Trump's contact in Russia, in regards to his business connections. Since American banks will no longer give him credit, he is looking to Russian to continue his "debt" scams.
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)Trump is the tool for the day.