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Wendy SiegelmanAlbanian 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<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Albania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Albania</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SaliBerisha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaliBerisha</a><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/albania-election-donald-trump-allies_n_67f94af5e4b060848e3e5f57" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/albania-election-donald-trump-allies_n_67f94af5e4b060848e3e5f57</a>

janhoglund…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.” —Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a>

janhoglundYanukovych 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. —Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/yanukovych" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yanukovych</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukraine</a>

janhoglund…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. —Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/deripaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deripaska</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#putin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a>

janhoglundManafort 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. —Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/deripaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deripaska</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#putin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a>

janhoglundWhat 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. —Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/paulmanafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paulmanafort</a>

janhoglundOver 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. —Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/paulmanafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paulmanafort</a>

janhoglundAs 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. —Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukraine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a>

janhoglundAs 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. —Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukraine</a>

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. —Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018) <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>

janhoglundAfter 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. —Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#putin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/yanukovych" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yanukovych</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukraine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a>

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. 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.” —Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom <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<a href="https://mas.to/@GlennMG" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GlennMG</a> RE <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russiarussiarussia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russiarussiarussia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/joycevance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#joycevance</a>everytime we hear <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</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">#PaulManafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manafort</a> gave internal polling data to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kilimnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kilimnik</a> who was a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RussianAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RussianAgent</a>By USB memory stick. By hand. Fact to fact meeting. In person. Physically together in the same room.Sad, seems <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zelenskyy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zelenskyy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zelensky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zelensky</a> has lost weight, see? He moved his wedding ring to a larger finger.

Pekka KallioniemiAfter this, <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Yanukovych" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yanukovych</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">#Trump</a> associates like Paul <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manafort</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">#election</a>.5/22

Wendy SiegelmanGood example of how to cover the news accurately, by Casey Michel:Paul Manafort Is Back to Wreck the WorldTrump’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."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."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulManafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulManafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manafort</a><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/190164/paul-manafort-trump-foreign-agents" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/article/190164/paul-manafort-trump-foreign-agents</a>

Wendy SiegelmanPardoned by Trump, Manafort Is Back and Looking for Foreign WorkManafort is looking to advise campaigns for opposition and far-right political factions in Latin America and EuropeManafort'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.Manafort has also engaged with interests in Ukraine. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulManafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulManafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manafort</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/trump-manafort.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/trump-manafort.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

Wendy SiegelmanThe SEC has charged people/entities tied to Trump 2016 campaign mgr Paul Manafort (recently at UAE crypto event where Erik Trump spoke)SEC charged Frederick Tayton Dencer, son Luke, Standard Holdings, Standard Huaxia Ltd. - with Fraud for misappropriating investor funds<a href="https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26192" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26192</a>In May the Washington Post reported Manafort was involved in a Chinese media deal approved by Chinese govt involving the Dencers and Standard Huaxia<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulManafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulManafort</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manafort</a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/10/paul-manafort-pardon-donald-trump-china/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/10/paul-manafort-pardon-donald-trump-china/</a>

skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote MidtermsLet's look at how CNN covers up how Trump used pardons TO GET people to lie. CNN dismisses <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manafort</a>'s FARA crimes (lying to hide on whose behalf he was influence-peddling) as "among other things" and never mentions he was found to have lied about 2016 Russian election interference. 20 or more russians are wanted by the FBI for arrest for election interference.<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a>

joe•iuculano :mastodon:Via <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LindyLi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LindyLi</a> @ 12:55am EDT on Sept 24, 2024<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> took a $10 million bribe from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Egypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Egypt</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> influencers took $10 million from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kushner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kushner</a> grifted $2 billion from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MBS</a> & $1 billion from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Qatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Qatar</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Flynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Flynn</a> was <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Turkey</a>’s paid spy<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manafort</a> shilled for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mnuchin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mnuchin</a> took $1 billion from MBSNO ONE in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> world works for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#America</a>

LaffyVia <a href="https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@emptywheel</a>: As I said, I asked myself about 5 times when reading the Doppelganger materials if Paul Manafort was back in the business of sharing campaign strategy with Russian spies. Alex Finley:You know what would really help Russians do such demographic targeting? Internal polling information. Maybe like the kind <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> campaign chairman Paul <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manafort</a> provided to his Russian intel buddy Konstantin Kilimnik back in 2015. Right Emptywheel? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a>

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