How is it I never knew Tad Devine was a cohort of Paul Manafort?

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54. You can't tell the difference between Putin's YANUKOVYCH and his opponent YUSCHENKO.

Other than the fact that they're both Ukrainian and both have names starting with Y, no one should have trouble telling them apart.

Bill Clinton's pollster Stan Greenburg, and his advisor Mark Penn both worked with former Prime Minister Yuschenko, who was poisoned by Putin thugs and almost died.

Paul Manafort and Tad Devine, by contrast, worked for Yanukovych, a Putin-ally in Ukraine.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko

Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, IPA: [ˈβiktor ɐnˈdrʲijoβetʃ ˈjuʃtʃenko] (About this sound listen); born February 23, 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third President of Ukraine from January 23, 2005 to February 25, 2010.

As an informal leader of the Ukrainian opposition coalition, he was one of the two main candidates in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Yushchenko won the presidency through a repeat runoff election between him and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The Ukrainian Supreme Court called for the runoff election to be repeated because of widespread electoral fraud in favor of Viktor Yanukovych in the original vote. Yushchenko won in the revote (52% to 44%). Public protests prompted by the electoral fraud played a major role in that presidential election and led to Ukraine's Orange Revolution.

Following an assassination attempt in late 2004 during his election campaign, Yushchenko was confirmed to have ingested hazardous amounts of TCDD, the most potent dioxin and a contaminant in Agent Orange. He suffered disfigurement as a result of the poisoning, but has since made a full physical recovery.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2014/02/21/ukraines-long-history-with-us-political-consultants-and-lobbyists

Manafort isn’t alone in plying his trade in the former Soviet republic; as the Times noted in 2007, former Bill Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg was working for Ukraine’s then-president, Viktor Yushchenko, as were GOP operatives Steve Schmidt and Neil Newhouse. By the 2010 presidential campaign, the Times reported, Yuschenko had retained another former Clinton strategist, Mark Penn, while then-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko had hired David Axelrod’s old firm, AKPD Media. (It’s a small world after all: Schmidt would go on to manage John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign against AKPD client Barack Obama; Newhouse would in 2012 poll for long-time client Mitt Romney in his presidential bid.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29761799

Russia helped ousted Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych to flee from violent protests in February, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has said.

It is the first time Mr Putin has given details of how he helped his ally escape.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/07/31/paul-manafort-trial-live-coverage/?utm_term=.8833ec3a4f05

Tad Devine described to the jury how Paul Manafort’s team brought American politics to Ukraine, including professional polling and advertising, a team of advance staffers, and people to monitor the voting process itself. When Viktor Yanukovych won the presidential race in February 2010, it was Devine who wrote his victory night speech.

That night, Devine and Manafort exchanged congratulatory notes, with Devine offering especially complimentary comments on Manafort’s work. Devine said he told Manafort that he had brought “tremendous discipline” to Yanukovych’s effort. He explained to the jury that campaigns often go awry when they go off message. But the Ukrainian’s campaign “delivered the message with numbing repetition,” thanks to Manafort.