Now that Paul Manafort agreed to cooperate with the US Special Counsel, will we finally get the full story of the damage he did in Africa too? Working for "Leaders" like the late Mobutu, Siad Barre, Sani Abacha, Jonas Savimbi and Teodoro Obiang, the latter who is still around?
On Manafort and Mobutu: Here's the receipts from 1989: washingtonpost.com/archive/lifest…
One side-note: The Manafort lobbyist assigned to work with Obiang, later ended up advising Ellen Sirleaf Johnson in her run to Liberia's presidency and later does PR work for Sirleaf Johnson's govermment in DC huffingtonpost.com/todd-moss/the-…
On Paul Manafort's work for Teodoro Obiang--he has governed Equatorial Guinea since 1979: theguardian.com/us-news/2016/m…
On Manafort's work for Siad Barre of Somalia, who governed Somalia from 1969 to 1991. Here's Manafort to an underling going to sign a $1m PR deal with Barre: “We all know Barre is a bad guy. We just have to make sure he’s our bad guy. Have a great trip!”
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On Paul Manafort's work for Sani Abacha: His job was to convince American lawmakers that Abacha was "the leader of a progressive emerging democracy." This was a corrupt regime which detained thousands, disappeared, assassinated and hung its opponents. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…
On Manafort's work on behalf of Jonas Savimbi; to get money and guns from the US government to Savimbi's "rebel" army in Angola in the 1980s and further plunge Angola into war. Over 500,000 died in that war which lasted much of the 70s through early 90s.
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