convincing. as campaign manager, paul manafort also stayed in contact with that russian operative. many cysts backed it he was just a link between the campaign and russian intelligence. the two men went on to cook up a bizarre plot where the eastern ukrainian territory of donbas, now the target of putin s invasion. or where the war started, it never really stopped. that it would break off to its own russian country, possibly under the rule of former disgraced russian dependent manner covid. he was outed from the campaign when his obvious corruption is too much for them, that brings us to putin s third brazen act. that is interfering with the 2016 election in a profound way. it is impossible to manage the impact of russia s hacked and leak information campaign, but regardless, putin got his desired outcome.
in the early 2000s he started working for vladimir putin s puppet candidate, to lead ukraine. yanukovych. jan of covid had tried to steal the presidential election in ukraine in october 2004, stuffed ballot boxes, voter intimidation, his opponent, the pro ukraine guy was actually poisoned by russian agents. his face became to figure disfigured. all of that, the macaw of spectacle, led to an uprising in ukraine known as the border revolution it brought me to covid down. it constant ten kilimnik. u.s. investigators say is a russian intelligence official and was integral to manafort s dealings in russia. manafort then gave the ukrainian prudent candidate a complete political make over,
dressing him like a more traditional politician, quite hair, nice suits, manafort thought the candidate had in mind empathy, modulator s voice when giving speeches. franklin fourth quoted insulate wrote, one chief calm this cheekily acid raiders to identify the ten elements of yanukovych rallies that manafort had imported from the conventions he brought. their work paid off. the putin puppet, yanukovych, won the presidency in 2010. in an election that is still tainted by corruption, but it did look like he won. things were going fine for this new, putin approved, president for a few years. until the 2013. that s when yanukovych refused to sign a trade agreement with the european union, instead opting to align with russia. this decision, along with naked corruption of ionic covid and his cronies, sparked massive protests forced mass for several months. yanukovych was forced out of