Former Trump aide approved 'black ops' to help Ukraine president

[neohippie]

Source: The Guardian

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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Manafort’s Ukraine strategy anticipates 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 decade for Yanukovych and his political party.

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

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The groundwork for cooperation - collusion from top members of Trump's campaign working with Russia to influence the US election looks to be established here.

Link to tweet

[magicarpet]

1. Drip, drip, drip..... the missing puzzle pieces slowly appear.

[progree]

2. This is Trump's then-campaign manager planting Ukrainian propaganda in the U.S. media etc.

(Ukrainian propaganda meaning the pro-Russia Yanukovych wing version)

This sounds pretty awful and damning to me.

[karynnj]

3. We saw those articles here - more towards 2013 than 2011

When Ukraine was a major issue. They pushed many negative stories on pepole like Nuland.

[Wwcd]

4. .."project was designed to boost the reputation of Ukraines then leader, Viktor Yanukovych"

"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. "

This was the campaign in the Ukraine to dress up & reinvent a completely new & acceptable image for Viktor Yanukovych.

This was the electioneering job of Paul Manafort & his long time associate, Tad Devine.


And wouldn't you know who both showed up prominently in 2015/16?
Manafort dressing up & reinventing the Trump image as a politically savy contender for the Republican Party, and Tad Devine doing the same with his role in the Democratic Party.

A two fold smear campaign against the Democratic Party & its powerful platform.

Enter the Assange, social media bot blitz, MSM, & hidden campaign money.

The promising future of this country never stood a chance against the multi sided coup.

Manafort & Devine & Money & Media

Glad its being revealed and there's a reason Mueller mentioned the two beneficiaries of the rigged all out assault on our gov't & our citizens.

I see Zuckerburg now says the number of FB users whose data was mined for Putin's coup is 87 million.

In the end, Mueller's investigation will tell the truth.


Thanks

[neohippie]

6. There was another Facebook study they don't like to mention

Here's a story where Facebook worked with same researcher who violated their data protocols in another study that had access to data on relationships of over 57 Billion global friendships


https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebook-had-a-closer-relationship-than-it-disclosed-with-the-academic-it-called-a-liar/2018/03/22/ca0570cc-2df9-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html?utm_term=.9322fb081c60

[Wwcd]

7. Thanks for the well presented 'Must Read.'

SNIP

Kogan tried to create a partnership with Harvard Medical School and with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to merge his data sets with medical and genetic data, according to emails.

“One of the people I met with at Harvard medical said he might be able to get us millions of medical records and also genetic data to link up to everything. Can you imagine the possibilities then?” Kogan wrote to Cambridge Analytica data scientists in a February 2014 email. “It’s going to be AMAZING.”


"Millions of medical records & also genetic data..
Its going to be AMAZING".
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Die in prison, please.

[SunSeeker]

5. Manafort wasn't just a "Trump aide." He was Trump's CAMPAIGN MANAGER.

And was in charge of the 2016 Republican National Comvention.

[Wwcd]

8. Ya, they can probably stop whitewashing the truth now.

Trump's aide. A lowly aide in charge of coffee & pens perhaps??!!

JUST SAY THE TRUTH ALREADY!

[Mr.Bill]

9. Yep. Can't remember the other sources,

but it's not the first time I've see Manafort called an "aide".

Not blaming The OP.

[neohippie]

11. Thanks

That is the original headline of the article as required by DU to be posted

Thanks for not blaming or shooting the messenger

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Kick