Manafort authorized anti-Clinton 'black ops' in Ukraine - years before Russia used the same tactics

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Manafort authorized anti-Clinton ‘black ops’ in Ukraine — years before Russia used the same tactics to help Trump

TRAVIS GETTYS
05 APR 2018 AT 13:02 ET

President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager authorized a secret media operation while working for Ukraine’s former president that targeted Hillary Clinton — years before the same techniques were used against her in the 2016 election.

Paul Manafort signed off on the project to place articles in the Wall Street Journal and smear then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton through briefings to websites such as Breitbart News, reported The Guardian.

Manafort’s associates also proposed doctoring Wikipedia entries to undermine a key opponent of Ukraine’s then-president Viktor Yanukovych, setting up a fake think tank in Vienna to spread pro-Yanukovych views and a social media blitz aimed at targeted audiences in the U.S. and Europe.

The Guardian obtained materials detailing these efforts from 2011 to 2013, when Manafort was paid millions of dollars to lobby on behalf of Yanukovych’s pro-Kremlin government.

Those strategies anticipate efforts by the Kremlin and Russian trolls to manipulate Facebook and Twitter to attack Clinton and boost Trump during the 2016 election campaign.

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[AJT]

1. This stuff is a bottomless pit.