Section: TPM (USA)
Trump Advisers Waged Covert Influence Campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — A firm run by Donald Trump’s campaign chairman directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor of the country’s pro-Russian government, emails obtained by The Associated Press show. Paul Manafort and...
AP Sources: Manafort Tied To Undisclosed Foreign Lobbying
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign chairman helped a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012, and did so in a way that effectively obscured the foreign political party’s efforts to influence U.S. policy. Read More → …read...
Why Trump Is Struggling With Mormon Voters, $12.7M For Manafort In Ukraine Ledger, And The Heroin Crisis
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Lewandowski: I Shared Report About Manafort’s Ukraine Ties To Knock Unfair NYT!
Donald Trump’s ousted campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Sunday tweeted a link to a New York Times report about his replacement Paul Manafort’s murky ties to a Ukrainian political party. Read More → …read more Source:...
NYT: Ledger In Ukraine Lists $12.7 Million For Trump Campaign Manager
A secret ledger kept by the political party of Ukraine’s deposed president shows $12.7 million in cash payments to Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, according to a New York Times report out Sunday. Read More → …read more Source:...
Ukraine Puts Troops Along Crimean Border On Combat Alert
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine’s president ordered the army to be on combat alert Thursday on the country’s de-facto border with Crimea and on the front line in eastern Ukraine following Moscow’s accusations that Ukraine sent in “saboteurs” to carry out attacks in Crimea. Read More → …read more Source:...
Trump Adviser Bashed US Policy Toward Russia In July Moscow Speech
An adviser to Donald Trump criticized United States policy toward Russia in a July trip to Moscow, the Huffington Post reported Tuesday. The trip came the week before the Trump campaign reportedly worked to soften language in the Republican party platform regarding U.S. support for Ukraine against Russian aggression. “Washington and other...
How Donald Trump Is Already Doing A World Of Damage Abroad
Donald Trump’s vision of a realigned U.S. foreign policy is already threatening to destabilize the current international system and force the world to reappraise America’s role in it even before Trump sets foot in the Oval Office, some top U.S. foreign policy experts are arguing. Trump’s often disjointed and ill-informed remarks...
Seeing Russia, the Khans and Donald All Together
I’d like to take a moment to pull together a series of recent threads on Donald Trump. We’ve now seen another episode of Donald Trump’s impulsive and self-destructive behavior play out in his fight with the Khan family. There was a less noted moment where he apparently didn’t realize that Russia annexed the Crimean...
Ukraine Ambassador To US ‘Concerned’ About Trump’s Russia Remarks
Valeriy Chaly, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, said Monday that Donald Trump’s recent comments about Russia and Ukraine are worrisome. Chaly told CNN that he was “surprised” by Trump’s remarks and “concerned” that the Republican presidential candidate does not have all the facts. Read More →...
