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In reply to the discussion: What is Donna Brazile's agenda? [View all]Wwcd
(6,288 posts)in the Ukraine election.
Yes, they worked together back then & the method these two professional campaign managers used to destroy the opponant, & create the image make-over for the Ukraine winner, Yanukovych, are similar to election 2016
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/paul_manafort_isn_t_a_gop_retread_he_s_made_a_career_of_reinventing_tyrants.html
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Manafort was hardly the only American in Yanukovychs orbit.
Bernie Sanders consultant Tad Devine went to work for him in 2009.
Ukrainians spent heavily in Washington, hiring a small army of top-drawer Republican lobbyists, including former congressmen Vin Weber and Billy Tauzin, to bolster Yanukovychs image in Washington and ultimately stave off American support for Ukrainian democracy.
But Manafort set up the largest shop in Kiev, housed in a well-guarded office just off Independence Square.
During elections, his operation swelled to six American consultants, in addition to Ukrainian translators and drivers.
He procured a special role in the Yanukovych camp. Anders Aslund told me, Manafort became Yanukovychs closest political advisor.
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If he could convince the respectable world that thugs like Savimbi and Marcos are friends of America, then why not do the same for Trump? One of his friends told me, He wanted to do his thing on home turf.
He wanted one last shot at the big prize.
The dots all connect.
Watch for Tad Devine & his role in the Democratic Party to be of interest.
Manafort took care of the Republican Party.