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Manafort strategy in the Ukraine: Take out the female candidate by prosecuting her.
The criminal information provided far more detail about something we had only seen snippets of in the Alex Van der Zwaan plea: Manafort’s use of Skadden Arps to whitewash Yanukovych’s prosecution of Yulia Tymoshenko.
It describes how Manafort used cut-outs to place stories claiming his client’s female opponent had murdered someone.
And it shows Manafort seeding lies that his client’s female opponent had criminal intent when he knew there was no proof to back the claim.
This propaganda effort against Manafort’s client’s female opponent included placing stories in Breitbart.
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HILLARY CLINTON IS THE ENEMY
Finally, as early as February 2013 (see PDF 14), Paul Manafort was advising his client that replacing Hillary Clinton with someone who would value raw material deals over human rights would be a positive development.
It describes how Manafort used cut-outs to place stories claiming his client’s female opponent had murdered someone.
MANAFORT took other measures to keep the Ukraine lobbying as secret as possible. For example, MANAFORT, in written communications on or about May 16, 2013, directed his lobbyists (including Persons D1 and D2, who worked for Company D) to write and disseminate within the United States news stories that alleged that Tymoshenko had paid for the murder of a Ukrainian official. MANAFORT stated that it should be “push[ed]” “[w]ith no fingerprints.” “It is very important we have no connection.” MANAFORT stated that “[m]y goal is to plant some stink on Tymo.”
And it shows Manafort seeding lies that his client’s female opponent had criminal intent when he knew there was no proof to back the claim.
MANAFORT directed lobbyists to tout the report as showing that President Yanukovych had not selectively prosecuted Tymoshenko. But in November 2012 MANAFORT had been told privately in writing by the law firm that the evidence of Tymoshenko’s criminal intent “is virtually non-existent” and that it was unclear even among legal experts that Tymoshenko lacked power to engage in the conduct central to the Ukraine criminal case. These facts, known by MANAFORT, were not disclosed to the public.
This propaganda effort against Manafort’s client’s female opponent included placing stories in Breitbart.
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HILLARY CLINTON IS THE ENEMY
Finally, as early as February 2013 (see PDF 14), Paul Manafort was advising his client that replacing Hillary Clinton with someone who would value raw material deals over human rights would be a positive development.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/09/15/paul-manaforts-modus-operandi-accuse-the-female-politician-of-crimes-she-didnt-commit-then-dodge-sanctions/
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