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Trump's New Campaign Consultant is Powerful Cosmetician/Lobbyist for Tyrants and Despots

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Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's new team leader is a very heavy duty, powerful, successful consultant/lobbyist/advisor who has helped vile dictators and tyrants re-shape their images and influence congress. He makes things happen and his participation on the Trump team should concern Trump opponents. 

"Manafort had a special gift for changing how dictators are beheld by American eyes. He would recast them as noble heroes—venerated by Washington think tanks, deluged with money from Congress."

Many of the world’s dictators eventually became his clients. “Name a dictator and Black, Manafort will name the account,” Art Levine wrote. (Levine’s piece, published in Spy, featured a sidebar ranking the ethical behavior of Washington lobbyists: It found Black, Manafort the worst of the bunch.) 

His connections reach the highest Republican echelons. This is a long article but well worth the read. 

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