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Donald Trump wasnt the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clintons allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manaforts resignation and advancing the narrative that Trumps campaign was deeply connected to Ukraines foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russias alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
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Now, it seems that a U.S. election may have been seen as a surrogate battle by those in Kiev and Moscow, Merkel said.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
Long article with lots of stuff on Manafort.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/21/lets-rank-the-media-from-liberal-to-conservative-based-on-their-audiences/
Places it in the same position on the spectrum as Huffington Post, buzzfeed, Washington Post, Economist, BBC, etc.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Politico? Left? no way.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)"Russian interference in U.S. election so overwhelming even little Ukraine tried to counteract it"