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Trump-splaining Ukraine
President Trump and Ukraine and the Bidens seem to be in all the news stories these days. But, if you don’t know how Trump thinks, then you won’t understand what you are hearing and reading. This short write-up is a primer on the mind of Trump.
For Trump, Ukraine didn’t matter until 2016, when two very important events occurred. The first was in August after Paul Manafort had recently been named chair of candidate Trump’s campaign committee. Someone in Ukraine (Serhiy Leshchenko) published in Ukraine papers and the New York Times that Paul Manafort had taken $12.7M in secret payments. These were in a “Black Ledger”, which was suspiciously found years after the previous Ukrainian leader was ousted. The controversy led to Manafort resigning and Donald Trump had his first taste of a foreign country attempting to sabotage his campaign. From Politico:
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