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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts) Mon Oct 30, 2017, 10:26 AM Oct 2017

Maybe it's just me, but if you're Trump and you don't want people associating you with Russia......

....maybe one of the first thing you tweet on the morning your former campaign manager just got indicted for his ties to Russia shouldn't be a shout out to someone who was literally the Russian government's P.R. guy.

Link to tweet

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account
@realDonaldTrump

Great job by MichaelCaputo on @foxandfriends.

4:50 AM - 30 Oct 2017

Russia media consultant[edit]

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Caputo established residence in Russia in 1994.[3][2][4] He served as an adviser to Boris Yeltsin.[1] In his capacity of advising Yeltsin in 1995, he was employed with the United States Agency for International Development.[3][5][1] He served as president of The Florence Group from 1994 to 1999, and stated he "played a pivotal role in electing Boris Yeltsin to his second term as President of the Russian Federation."[6] He was employed by Moscow-headquartered subsidiary of Gazprom, Gazprom-Media.[7][5][4] Caputo was contracted for Gazprom in 2000 to perform employment for Russian leader Vladimir Putin.[3][5] His task was to increase the standing of the public relations value of Putin, specifically with regards to Putin's support level in the U.S.[7][5][4] He moved back from Russia to the U.S. in the year 2000.[2] After returning to the U.S., he was called by his former mentor Roger Stone who convinced him to move to Miami Beach, Florida, and then Caputo founded his media advising company Michael Caputo Public Relations.[2] Caputo moved back to Europe in 2007 while advising a politician's campaign for parliament in Ukraine.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Caputo

Fo' sho'.