A top Russian official is accusing the Ukrainian government of undermining U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential campaign by trashing him on social media and disseminating dirt on one of his close associates.
A spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday contended that the Ukrainian government over the summer damaged Trump’s campaign by implicating his then-campaign chief Paul Manafort in a corruption scandal involving a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party funded by oligarchs.
“Ukraine seriously complicated the work of Trump’s election campaign headquarters by planting information according to which Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, allegedly accepted money from Ukrainian oligarchs,†Maria Zakharova said at …read more
Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
