I wonder what's happened to the Bernie Sanders chief strategist,
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Tad Devine.
His period of working with Paul Manafort for the Putin-backed Ukrainian was just before his early talks with Bernie about a possible 2016 run. Also, Devine led a "lock her up" campaign against Yulia Tymoshenko in the Ukrainian election, similar to his partner, Paul Manafort's, campaign against Hillary.
So I hope Bernie is wise enough to cut him loose.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/bernie-sanders-strategist-tad-devine-paul-manafort-files-mueller
For bad or for worse, Paul Manafort may go down as one of the most consequential lobbyists in American history. It was his ties to the former Soviet Union, after all, that initially fueled accusations that Donald Trump colluded with the Kremlin. Now, caught in Robert Mueller’s dragnet, and facing numerous counts of money laundering, tax fraud, and witness tampering, Manafort will soon stand trial in a case that will likely render judgment on his long career in the dark trenches of K-Street. (He has pleaded not guilty.) On Thursday, the Mueller team submitted more than 500 pieces of evidence to a federal judge intended to show that Trump’s former campaign chairman committed bank and tax fraud, with the purchases (antique rugs, Yankees tickets, in-house putting greens) to prove it. Buried in the list of exhibits, however, is a broader indictment of Washington’s foreign-lobbying culture—one that includes another key figure in the 2016 election: Tad Devine, former chief strategist for Bernie Sanders.
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MUELLER is interested in the work that @TadDevine, who was the chief strategist for @BernieSanders 2016 presidential campaign, did with MANAFORT on behalf of the RUSSIA-aligned Ukrainian Party of Regions, based on this list of exhibits to be presented at trial starting next week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-bernie-sanders-ad-man-who-played-paul-manaforts-game/2018/08/01/0df78c18-95c7-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?utm_term=.5ac0b2e81480
Tad Devine, during his run as chief strategist for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, railed against the corrupting influence of money in politics.
He repeatedly echoed the Sanders message that “our economy is rigged,” that “special interests” buy politicians, that “all of the new wealth is going to the top of America,” that there is a “corrupt system of campaign finance” of which Hillary Clinton offered an “egregious” example. Sanders, by contrast, “supported the little guy.”
Those who heard Devine’s interviews and watched his Sanders TV ads therefore may be surprised to know that, in the years and months leading up to the Sanders presidential campaign, Devine was making gobs of money to secure the election of one of the world’s most corrupt political figures and then his allies.
Thanks to Robert S. Mueller III’s prosecution of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman and sometime business associate of Devine, we now have an unusual glimpse into the role the Democratic ad man had in electing and preserving the power of Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych, a crooked pro-Putin autocrat. Though American political consultants routinely rake in cash from foreign leaders — even shady ones — Devine’s seamless pivot from advocate for antidemocratic thug to champion of a principled democratic reformer shows extraordinary flexibility.
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