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What kind of data did Manafort share with his Russian contacts? @pbump speculates
washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
(In July 2018, I also wondered whether shared data was at the heart of the relationship between Russia and the Trump campaign)
washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
(and in September 2017, I also wondered why it was that Trump, in 2016, just so happened to use the same language, narratives and conspiracy theories as those propagated by Sputnik)
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Anne Applebaum
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"Mr. Trump knew of and directed the Trump Moscow
negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. He lied about it
because he never expected to win the election. He also lied about it
because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars..."
"The sad fact is that I never heard Mr. Trump say anything in private that led
me to believe he loved our nation or wanted to make it better. In fact, he did
the opposite."
"Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump
that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr.
Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a
massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign."
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Anne Applebaum
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an ex-priest, on whose behalf Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the Polish ruling party, has been accused of demanding a bribe has...disappeared. He is on the board of the development company which Kaczynski controls. Interesting.
(or rather, the company which Kaczynski's foundation controls. Yes, it's all very complicated, as it was designed to be)
in other news: ruling party MPs are also accused of stealing from the Polish Red Cross to support their election campaigns. This is populism in practice.
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Anne Applebaum
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Maybe because your "civilizationism" is invented? These are hypocritical movements that seek money and power for their leaders, and indulge the resentments of their followers. They lie, cheat and assault the rule of law in order to stay in power. Nothing to do with civilization.
I repeat: There is a reason why these kinds of leaders don't like independent courts, independent media or an apolitical civil service. It's because they want to use the organs of the state for personal and party gain, and they need to cover that up.
Remember, we are talking about "anti-immigration" leaders who personally employ illegal immigrants, or "anti-communists" whose most trusted comrades include former communists and police informers. So if you care about immigration, or anti-communism, you should be wary of them.
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