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Russians Tried to Take Over the US as Early as 2008
We got a revelation through a former Republican strategist that Russia had her hands in the US election of 2008. This was through an ally of Paul Manafort who managed the John McCain first. As Steve Schmidt puts it, the early campaign had a pro-democracy wing and a pro-Russia wing.
This is straight from his Tweets:
I had no interest whatsoever in running a Presidential Campaign in 2008. One of my closest friends was running John McCain’s campaign and John Weaver was the chief strategist. (Weaver later became Bernie Sanders chief strategist)
There were two factions in the campaign. There was a pro-democracy faction and there was
2/ a pro Russia faction. The pro democracy faction was led by Weaver and the pro Russia faction was led by a Washington lobbyist who was in business with Paul Manafort. Like Manafort, he had a Trump Tower residence. He was in charge of the campaigns finances and bankrupted the
3/ campaign through a series of unethical transactions and markups with Manafort and a company called 3 EDC. The campaign was destroyed over a massive fight over John McCain’s greatest blind spot, willful or otherwise. @MeghanMcCain this is the story of the man you call Uncle Rick