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24 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Several former American diplomats to Ukraine hold Paul Manafort responsible for a siege against US Marines in Crimea by the pro-Russian partisans that employed him in 2006 -- a siege that undermined the Bush administration's relations with Ukraine. taskandpurpose.com/news/manafort-… Image
We spoke to several of those Marines back in 2016, when Manafort ran Trump's campaign. fusion.tv/story/338016/t…
I spoke with @maddow about Manafort's employ with the Party of Regions, the Kremlin-connected architects of that attack on the US Marines in Feodosia, back in 2017. msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/… Image
There are other things about Paul Manafort that have never been fully reported out, things that would have given any other crony pause in considering clemency for him. Suffice to say Donald Trump isn't pardoning *bad* people; he's pardoning the *worst* people.
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Those last two paragraphs about the RNC official in this story about the pardons-bribery scandal, tho wsj.com/articles/bribe… Image
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Couple notes to add to this wild scoop by @ErinBanco and @swin24, which you absolutely must read, about Pompeo running a "salt the earth" strategy on US-Iran relations: thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-po…
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