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Paul Manafort, Roger Stone & Lee Atwater
This article, describing them seems accurate on first glance.
It is helpful for those following the republican President Donald Trumps Russian saga, to know that the friendships among Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and the president go back for decades. Roger Stone and Paul Manafort used to be business partners. It is illuminating to get to know the character of the kind of folks, our president had an association.
March 23, 2017
aside Roger Stone, Paul Manafort And Donald Trump Go Way Back
It is helpful for those following the republican President Donald Trumps Russian saga, to know that the friendships among Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and the president go back for decades. Roger Stone and Paul Manafort used to be business partners. It is illuminating to get to know the character of the kind of folks, our president had an association.Image result for photos of roy cohn
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The genesis of Donald Trumps relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthys heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the 70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit. (Cohn accused the Feds of using Gestapo-like tactics.) But Cohn and Trump became genuine pals, lunching at the Four Seasons and clubbing together at Studio 54. It was Roy Cohn who introduced Stone and Manafort to Trump.
March 23, 2017
aside Roger Stone, Paul Manafort And Donald Trump Go Way Back
It is helpful for those following the republican President Donald Trumps Russian saga, to know that the friendships among Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and the president go back for decades. Roger Stone and Paul Manafort used to be business partners. It is illuminating to get to know the character of the kind of folks, our president had an association.Image result for photos of roy cohn
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The genesis of Donald Trumps relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthys heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the 70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit. (Cohn accused the Feds of using Gestapo-like tactics.) But Cohn and Trump became genuine pals, lunching at the Four Seasons and clubbing together at Studio 54. It was Roy Cohn who introduced Stone and Manafort to Trump.
https://grondamorin.com/2017/03/23/roger-stone-paul-manafort-and-donald-trump-go-way-back/
Lee Atwater died of a brain tumor in 1991, and apologized to what he did to Michael Dukakis, by stating that
"While I didn't invent negative politics," he said, "I am one of its most ardent practitioners."
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As manager of Mr. Bush's campaign, Mr. Atwater succeeded in making the case of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer, an issue against Mr. Dukakis.
Mr. Horton, who is black, raped a white woman and stabbed her husband while on a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison. The Bush campaign used the case to portray Mr. Dukakis, then Governor of Massachusetts, as a liberal who was soft on crime.
"In 1988," Mr. Atwater said, "fighting Dukakis, I said that I 'would strip the bark off the little bastard' and 'make Willie Horton his running mate.' I am sorry for both statements: the first for its naked cruelty, the second because it makes me sound racist, which I am not." Reputation as 'Ugly Campaigner'
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As manager of Mr. Bush's campaign, Mr. Atwater succeeded in making the case of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer, an issue against Mr. Dukakis.
Mr. Horton, who is black, raped a white woman and stabbed her husband while on a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison. The Bush campaign used the case to portray Mr. Dukakis, then Governor of Massachusetts, as a liberal who was soft on crime.
"In 1988," Mr. Atwater said, "fighting Dukakis, I said that I 'would strip the bark off the little bastard' and 'make Willie Horton his running mate.' I am sorry for both statements: the first for its naked cruelty, the second because it makes me sound racist, which I am not." Reputation as 'Ugly Campaigner'
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/13/us/gravely-ill-atwater-offers-apology.html
Read upon these three and see why I have little to no empathy for them. Roger Stone is next for prison.
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Photo Blast From The Past (I feel no sympathy) (Original Post)
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2018
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ffr
(22,670 posts)1. Grifters one and all and all for one.
skylucy
(3,739 posts)2. K & R!
al bupp
(2,179 posts)3. Stone reminds me of Nosferatu in the shot /nt
brush
(53,788 posts)4. And never forget Stone was behind the ginned-up Al Franken scandal.
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And also never forget who fell for it and acted on it with gusto.