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Wendy Siegelman<p>Trump campaign architects are involved in Albania’s upcoming election</p><p>Chris LaCivita (co-ran Trump 2024), pollster Tony Fabrizio, Paul Manafort are working for Sali Berisha who is challenging PM Edi Rama</p><p>Meanwhile Edi Rama's cabinet recently approved a deal with Jared Kushner for development of a $1.6 billion resort</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Albania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Albania</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LaCivita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaCivita</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fabrizio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fabrizio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berisha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berisha</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rama</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kushner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kushner</span></a></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/albania-election-trump-consultants-lobbying-lacivita-manafort-931d49ab52e4cb15de0cc6b5d91407b7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/albania-ele</span><span class="invisible">ction-trump-consultants-lobbying-lacivita-manafort-931d49ab52e4cb15de0cc6b5d91407b7</span></a></p>
Wendy Siegelman<p>Albanian politician Sali Berisha is under US and UK travel sanctions due to allegations of corruption. His presidential campaign is getting a boost from Trump allies - including Trump 2024 campaign co-manager Chris LaCivita, Paul Manafort, Tony Fabrizio, Phil Griffin</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Albania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Albania</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SaliBerisha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaliBerisha</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/albania-election-donald-trump-allies_n_67f94af5e4b060848e3e5f57" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/albania-ele</span><span class="invisible">ction-donald-trump-allies_n_67f94af5e4b060848e3e5f57</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>…on March 29 [2016], Trump unveiled his new convention manager, stating that Manafort was “volunteering” his insight and expertise. The candidate called Manafort a “great asset”… Manafort said he was “honored” to serve “Mr. Trump’s campaign.” He added: “I am confident that he [Trump] will be the next president of the United States.”<br>—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Yanukovych moved quickly to consolidate all instruments of power: the courts, parliament, the prosecutor’s office. Plus the media and TV. The claim that Yanukovych was a reformed character was unfounded. In power, he was behaving—as Manafort must have known he would—as a classic bully and thug.<br>—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/yanukovych" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yanukovych</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>…Manafort signed a $10 million annual contract with Deripaska. In return, the American proposed a wide-ranging political plan to undermine Putin’s opponents in Europe and the United States and in former Soviet republics.<br>—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/deripaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deripaska</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Manafort began working for Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire Russian oligarch… Deripaska’s alleged ties to the mafia meant that for some years he was unable to get an American visa. … Like all superrich Russians Deripaska perfectly understood Putin’s requirements. When called upon, you did what the president commanded.<br>—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/deripaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deripaska</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>What was a veteran Republican fixer doing in this murky post-Soviet corner, dominated as it was by oligarchs and others whose sources of wealth were never very transparent? The answer, it appeared, was money. Lots of it.<br>—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/paulmanafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paulmanafort</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Over the next few years it turned out that [Paul] Manafort’s version of history was more than wrong. It went beyond spin or political PR. Everything he told me was a lie.<br>—Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/paulmanafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paulmanafort</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>As Trump’s campaign manager, he [Manafort] oversaw the import of Russian-style political fiction. It was during Manafort’s tenure that Trump told a television audience that Russia would not invade Ukraine—two years after Russia had done so.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>As an operative in Ukraine between 2005 and 2015, Manafort used the same “Southern strategy” that Republicans had developed in the United States in the 1980s: tell one part of the population that its identity is at risk, and then try to make every election a referendum on culture. In the United States, the target audience was Southern whites; in Ukraine the target audience was speakers of Russian: but the appeal was the same.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a></p>
janIn July 2016, not long after the Brexit referendum, Donald Trump said, “Putin is not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down.” The Russian invasion of Ukraine had begun more than two years before, in February 2014… It was thanks to that very set of events that Trump had a campaign manager. Yanukovych fled to Russia, but his advisor Paul Manafort kept working for a pro-Russian party in Ukraine through the end of 2015. … This was the perfect transition to Manafort’s next job. In 2016, he moved to New York and took over the management of Trump’s campaign. … Under Manafort’s tutelage, Trump proclaimed Russian innocence.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)<br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/yanukovych" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yanukovych</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/ukraine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukraine</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/manafort" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/usa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/donaldtrump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#donaldtrump</a>
janhoglund<p>After the mass killing, Yanukovych was abandoned by the parliamentary deputies who had supported him and the policemen who had protected him. He fled his garish residence, leaving behind a trove of documents—including records of large cash payments to his advisor Paul Manafort, who two years later surfaced as the campaign manager of Donald Trump.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/yanukovych" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yanukovych</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
Lisa<p>Shortly after Yanukovych’s ouster, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> invaded and annexed <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crimea</span></a>, prompting the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> and the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/EuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanUnion</span></a> to impose economic sanctions on Russia and on specific Russian businesses and oligarchs. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manafort</span></a> owed <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Deripaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deripaska</span></a> about $17 million but had no way to repay it until his longtime friend and business partner <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RogerStone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RogerStone</span></a>, who was advising Trump’s floundering presidential campaign, turned to him for help.<br>13/</p>
Lisa<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manafort</span></a> did not take a salary from the campaign but immediately let <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Deripaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deripaska</span></a> know about his new position.<br>Russian operatives told Manafort that in exchange for a promise to turn U.S. policy toward <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, they would work to get Trump elected. They wanted <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> to look the other way as <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> took control of eastern <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> through a “peace” plan that would end the war in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crimea</span></a>, weaken <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a>, and remove U.S. sanctions from Russian entities.<br>14/</p>
jan”That Ukraine was a different sovereign state than Russia was an elementary matter of international law, just as Canada was not the United States, and Belgium was not France. By presenting the banal legal status quo as a violation of Russia’s immaculate civilization, Putin was overthrowing a prevailing concept of law…in favor of particular claims from culture. Russia was not only innocent but generous, went his reasoning, since only through Russian civilization could Ukrainians understand who they truly were.<br>Even the most servile of Ukraine’s leaders would have difficulty accepting Putin’s description of their society. The president of Ukraine at the time, Viktor Yanukovych, was a known quantity in Russia and hardly a threat. Yanukovych had been disgraced in 2004 when a presidential election was stolen on his behalf, and Putin had been embarrassed when the election was held again and someone else won. The American political strategist Paul Manafort, at work on a plan to increase Russia’s influence in the United States, was dispatched to Kyiv to help Yanukovych.”<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom<br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/putin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#putin</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/yanukovych" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yanukovych</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/manafort" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/ukraine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukraine</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/usa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a>
Six Grandfathers Mountain<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@GlennMG" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GlennMG</span></a></span> <br>RE<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russiarussiarussia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russiarussiarussia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/joycevance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>joycevance</span></a></p><p>everytime we hear <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> say RRR, we are reminded of the fact that his campaign manager <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulManafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulManafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manafort</span></a> gave internal polling data to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kilimnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kilimnik</span></a> who was a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RussianAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussianAgent</span></a></p><p>By USB memory stick. <br>By hand. <br>Fact to fact meeting. <br>In person. <br>Physically together in the same room.</p><p>Sad, seems <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zelenskyy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zelenskyy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zelensky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zelensky</span></a> has lost weight, see? He moved his wedding ring to a larger finger.</p>
Megaphone :verified:Are <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Trump?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> and <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Musk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Putin?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a>’s Puppets?<br> <br> Investigative journalist <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/AlanPiper?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlanPiper</a> lays out a troubling web of financial and political ties between Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Vladimir Putin. The evidence suggests a long history of <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Russian?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russian</a> influence that raises serious questions about their loyalties and motivations.<br> <br> 🔹 Trump’s Russian Backing<br> Since the 1990s, Trump has been financially entangled with Russian oligarchs—Putin’s inner circle. When American banks refused to fund him due to his repeated bankruptcies, Russian money flowed into <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/TrumpTower?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTower</a> and his real estate ventures. Paul <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Manafort?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manafort</a>, a longtime operative for pro-Putin politicians in <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Ukraine?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a>, later joined Trump’s 2016 campaign—working for free while secretly sharing internal campaign data with Russian agents. Trump also publicly encouraged Russian election interference, and after taking office, he pushed policies that directly benefited Putin, including delaying military aid to Ukraine.<br> <br> 🔹 Musk’s Questionable Ties<br> Elon Musk, meanwhile, has echoed Putin’s talking points on Ukraine and reportedly been in regular contact with the Russian leader since 2022. His control over <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Starlink?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starlink</a>—a crucial communications system for Ukraine—has allowed him to undermine their war effort by blocking access at key moments. Putin seems to be returning the favor, with Russian financial institutions partnering with Musk’s ventures.<br> <br> <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Trump?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Musk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Putin?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a> <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Russia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Election2024?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Election2024</a> <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Geopolitics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geopolitics</a> <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/Politics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/AlanPiper?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlanPiper</a> <a href="https://lgbt.earth/discover/tags/CourierNewsroom?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CourierNewsroom</a>
Pekka Kallioniemi<p>After this, <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Yanukovych" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yanukovych</span></a> retreated from the spotlight for a while, but eventually made a political comeback. With support from <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> associates like Paul <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manafort</span></a>, he rebranded himself as a “moderate”, and, in 2010, narrowly won the presidency in a relatively fair <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a>.</p><p>5/22</p>
Wendy Siegelman<p>Good example of how to cover the news accurately, by Casey Michel:</p><p>Paul Manafort Is Back to Wreck the World</p><p>Trump’s one-time aide-de-camp and bagman for corrupt foreign regimes is returning to his old stomping grounds, rolling back precious progress against a world of kleptocrats.</p><p>"Instead of the broken, chastened man Manafort once claimed to be, he’s cannonballed back into the world of cementing authoritarian forces around the globe."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulManafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulManafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manafort</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/190164/paul-manafort-trump-foreign-agents" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/190164</span><span class="invisible">/paul-manafort-trump-foreign-agents</span></a></p>
Wendy Siegelman<p>Pardoned by Trump, Manafort Is Back and Looking for Foreign Work</p><p>Manafort is looking to advise campaigns for opposition and far-right political factions in Latin America and Europe</p><p>Manafort's team includes Trump's '24 campaign mgr Chris LaCivita and pollster Tony Fabrizio, Texan John Harkrider and digital advertising strategist Vincent Harris, who worked briefly for Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign.</p><p>Manafort has also engaged with interests in Ukraine.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulManafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulManafort</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manafort</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/trump-manafort.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-manafort.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>