Ex Trump aide approved "Black Ops" to help Ukraine president

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Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort authorised a secret media operation on behalf of Ukraine’s former president featuring “black ops”, “placed” articles in the Wall Street Journal and US websites and anonymous briefings against Hillary Clinton.

The project was designed to boost the reputation of Ukraine’s then leader, Viktor Yanukovych. It was part of a multimillion-dollar lobbying effort carried out by Manafort on behalf of Yanukovych’s embattled government, emails and documents reveal. 

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The strategies included:

• Proposing to rewrite Wikipedia entries to smear a key opponent of the then Ukrainian president.

• Setting up a fake thinktank in Vienna to disseminate viewpoints supporting Yanukovych.

• A social media blitz “aimed at targeted audiences in Europe and the US”.

• Briefing journalists from the rightwing website Breitbart to attack Clinton when she was US secretary of state. 

Manafort’s Ukraine strategy anticipated later efforts by the Kremlin and its troll factory to use Twitter and Facebook to discredit Clinton and to help Trump win the 2016 US election. The material seen by the Guardian dates from 2011 to 2013.

Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating claims of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, has indicted Manafort on multiple counts. Manafort is accused of “laundering profits” from his lobbying work in Ukraine, carried out over a period of a decade for Yanukovych and his political party.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/05/ex-trump-aide-paul-manafort-approved-black-ops-to-help-ukraine-president

 

poor old Manafort and his two ankle bracelets. If he goes to mueller he gets them taken off, but he and his family get mysteriously poisoned by the Russians. Between a rock and a hard place. 

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1 hour ago, Jacque67 said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/05/ex-trump-aide-paul-manafort-approved-black-ops-to-help-ukraine-president

 

poor old Manafort and his two ankle bracelets. If he goes to mueller he gets them taken off, but he and his family get mysteriously poisoned by the Russians. Between a rock and a hard place. 

You have a really wild imagination. You should try writing fiction books. Reading them would probably be an enjoyable escape from reality.

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2 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

You have a really wild imagination. You should try writing fiction books. Reading them would probably be an enjoyable escape from reality.

Thanks for your input. Have a great day, sir.

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Such a waste of money. I thought Hillary did a pretty good job herself with the discredit. Everytime she opened her mouth.