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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolitico: Trump’s campaign chairman had close ties with Marcos, former dictator of the Philippines
Manaforts Philippine adventure came at a time when international opinion was turning against Marcos authoritarian regime. Yet, one of Manaforts business partners now says that Manafort neglected to inform him of the firms contract with the dictator. That created some embarrassment and raised concerns about a style that several of his former associates portrayed as mercenary and envelope-pushing.
POLITICO found that Manafort worked more closely than previously known with Marcos and his wife, Imelda, in Manila, where Manafort and his associates advised the couple on electoral strategy, and in Washington, where they worked to retain goodwill by tamping down concerns about the Marcos regimes human rights record, theft of public resources, and ultimately their perpetration of a massive vote-rigging effort to try to stay in power in the Philippines 1986 presidential election.
In the run-up to that election, aides to Marcoss leading opponent Corazon Aquino invoked Manaforts role with the dictator to vilify Marcos with the intelligentsia, said Teddy Locsin, a prominent Philippine journalist and operative who worked for Aquino on that campaign. While Aquino also had help from Westerners the prominent international consulting firm Sawyer Miller accepted $15,000 from her campaign, which appears to have been mostly expense reimbursements her team found Manafort an appealing target. In the words of Locsin, who was later elected to Congress, Manafort's name was like Voldemort today.
POLITICO found that Manafort worked more closely than previously known with Marcos and his wife, Imelda, in Manila, where Manafort and his associates advised the couple on electoral strategy, and in Washington, where they worked to retain goodwill by tamping down concerns about the Marcos regimes human rights record, theft of public resources, and ultimately their perpetration of a massive vote-rigging effort to try to stay in power in the Philippines 1986 presidential election.
In the run-up to that election, aides to Marcoss leading opponent Corazon Aquino invoked Manaforts role with the dictator to vilify Marcos with the intelligentsia, said Teddy Locsin, a prominent Philippine journalist and operative who worked for Aquino on that campaign. While Aquino also had help from Westerners the prominent international consulting firm Sawyer Miller accepted $15,000 from her campaign, which appears to have been mostly expense reimbursements her team found Manafort an appealing target. In the words of Locsin, who was later elected to Congress, Manafort's name was like Voldemort today.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952
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Its just gets uglier and uglier for the Trumpster.
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Politico: Trump’s campaign chairman had close ties with Marcos, former dictator of the Philippines (Original Post)
DCBob
Jun 2016
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marcos died a long time ago...I'm surprised Manafort looks as good as he does at his age
Demonaut
Jun 2016
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Demonaut
(8,914 posts)1. marcos died a long time ago...I'm surprised Manafort looks as good as he does at his age
DCBob
(24,689 posts)2. Of course that photo in the article is an old one..
He looks like this now.. still not bad for his age..
Response to DCBob (Original post)
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Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)4. 1992 Spy magazine article on sleaziest PR firms......his was the WORST:
pampango
(24,692 posts)5. He also worked for Putin's man in Ukraine - Viktor Yanukovych. Any authoritarian is a friend
of Manafort.
Paul Manafort, Donald Trumps top adviser, and his ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine
http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/
UTUSN
(70,648 posts)6. "gets uglier and uglier for the Trumpster" - DRUMPF hired this creep *BECAUSE* of the Ugly!1 n/t