NEW: In an astonishing move, Biden backers hired a post-Soviet spin-man—the kind of guy Paul Manafort would recognize—to help run Biden’s new Super PAC, pointing to the kind of moral rot still gnawing at the country’s political center. newrepublic.com/article/155576…
The guy Biden backers tapped to help run Biden’s new Super PAC, Larry Rasky, spent a good chunk of 2019 helping whitewash Azerbaijan’s dictatorship—perhaps the quintessential post-Soviet kleptocracy. newrepublic.com/article/155576… 
Or put another way:
To those running Biden’s Super PAC, the best way to combat the slings and slurs that post-Soviet actors and their spin-men fling at Biden is, apparently, to hire a post-Soviet spin-man of their own.
To those running Biden’s Super PAC, the best way to combat the slings and slurs that post-Soviet actors and their spin-men fling at Biden is, apparently, to hire a post-Soviet spin-man of their own.
Here's the recent track record of the Azeri government, which the guy helping run Biden's Super PAC was paid this year to help whitewash. It's horrific. newrepublic.com/article/155576…
Azerbaijan’s whitewashing efforts—which Rasky got paid to continue—are also notorious (and memorable) in the U.S. and Europe:
There’s no indication Rasky, or Biden’s Super PAC, did anything illegal.
But that’s the issue: It’s still apparently acceptable in certain quarters to hire those whitewashing post-Soviet dictatorships to help run prongs of a major presidential campaign. Which is ridiculous.
But that’s the issue: It’s still apparently acceptable in certain quarters to hire those whitewashing post-Soviet dictatorships to help run prongs of a major presidential campaign. Which is ridiculous.
There's absolutely no reason Biden's backers should have hired a guy who worked as a foreign agent for a post-Soviet dictatorship to run the new Biden Super PAC.
Trump’s 2020 opponents should want to lead the way, not follow in the president's wake.
newrepublic.com/article/155576…
Trump’s 2020 opponents should want to lead the way, not follow in the president's wake.
newrepublic.com/article/155576…
Rasky claimed that he ended his work for Azerbaijan's regime because he didn't want to be a "distraction" for Biden's campaign. Too late for that!
That’s one way to look at things.
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The new FARA filings are in for Rasky's work for Azerbaijan's regime, including a $1,100 dinner tab: efile.fara.gov/docs/6586-Supp…
