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Originally Posted by driveway
Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager, used to work for Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine - this is a matter of public record.
What has recently come to light, is that Manafort's name appears 22 times in what has come to be called "The Black Ledger" a handwritten record of off-the-books payments from Yanukovyitch's party to various people and entities. According to the ledgers, the total amount paid to Manafort was 12.7 million dollars, and may end up with Manafort being indicted for corruption in Ukraine.
Manafort has not commented, but his lawyers deny everything.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us...rump.html?_r=0
Further examples of the close ties the Putin regime has to the Trump campaign. |
This has been brought up a few times in the media, and it sheds a pretty sinister light on the fact that Trump's stated policy towards Ukraine diverges greatly from the Republican standard.
At this point though I don't think it matters. Trump has the voter base he's going to have in the end. He's going to lose, but I really can't imagine what else could happen to cause him to lose those core fanatics and people who will vote red no matter what.