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Paul Manafort: Handmaiden to dictators


Paul Manafort: Handmaiden to dictators
David Hoffman, Opinion Contributor
© The Hill
Paul Manafort: Handmaiden to dictators
The presidential act of a pardon tells us a great deal about the president and the people whose actions are forgiven. That President Trump both hired and pardoned Paul Manafort is a case study in the dependency of authoritarian leaders on a circle of unethical enablers. The corruption of any political system is at its heart a criminal conspiracy. Corruption feeds on political power.
To make sense of the president s pardon of Paul Manafort, it helps to understand the man Trump selected to run his 2016 campaign. On one hand, it seems inconceivable that an American presidential candidate would choose as his campaign manager someone whose last job was political strategist to a dictator in Ukraine who had recently been overthrown in a popular revolution. On the other hand, it makes perfect sense. Paul Manafort made a fortune ....

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