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Donald Trump’s Russia connections

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Donald Trump’s Russia connections

Last Wednesday Trump gave a speech to foreign policy wonks at the Mayflower Hotel under the auspices of the Center for the National Interest. This event was orchestrated by top Trump adviser Paul Manafort....

That Trump would choose the Center for the National Interest as the place to premier his new seriousness on foreign policy has Manafort’s fingerprints all over it. For Manafort and the Center have something very important in common: both have ties to the Russian regime of President Vladimir Putin, (whose ambassador to the United States sat in the front row for Trump’s address).

For years, Manafort worked as a consultant to ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, building what his own friends characterized as a “political love connection” with the pro-Russian leader. It was Yanukovych’s last-minute refusal to sign a trade agreement with the European Union in 2013 that sparked the Maidan revolution that ultimately drove him from power after his security forces murdered some 100 protesters in downtown Kiev. Yanukovych fled to Russia, where he remains. Manafort was paid handsomely to clean up Yanukovych’s negative image, much as he is currently trying to do with Trump. But as is often the case with Western PR men hired to put lipstick on a pig, the pig is still a pig.

As for the Center, both it and its journal, the National Interest, are two of the most Kremlin-sympathetic institutions in the nation’s capital, even more so that the Carnegie Moscow Center, which has evolved from a hub of Russian liberalism into an accomodationist, intellectually-compromised think tank.

Trump is already in Putin's vest pocket.
 
You can add Trump's old attempt to disfigure the shores of Hudson with a tasteless monstrosity by the official Russian sculptor, Zurab Tsereteli

Trump Solo - The New Yorker
 
Simpleχity;1065814978 said:
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Donald Trump’s Russia connections

Last Wednesday Trump gave a speech to foreign policy wonks at the Mayflower Hotel under the auspices of the Center for the National Interest. This event was orchestrated by top Trump adviser Paul Manafort....



Trump is already in Putin's vest pocket.

Hogwash! Absolute nonsense. The Maidan revolution was a US financed and organized coup d'etat. The 100 protestors were shot by Parubiy's goons. The real World sees Putin as a straight shooting, sincere, caring leader, but the Western Narrative paints Putin as an evil, lying scumbag. You cover lies with more lies and the OP's quotes demonstrate that profusely.
 
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