Apparently there’s a hoax going around that Putin stooge Paul Manafort actually managed Trump’s 2016 campaign. Matt Yglesias has the goods.
Where’s Senator Joe McCarthy when you need him? We need a new HUAC to flesh out all these Putin sympathizers in Trump World. Perhaps he could start with this “hoax” from 2016:
The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.
Throughout the campaign, Trump has been dismissive of calls for supporting the Ukraine government as it fights an ongoing Russian-led intervention. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, worked as a lobbyist for the Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych for more than a decade.
Still, Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States.
PS. Here’s a good article on the American right’s love affair with people like Putin.
PPS. What are America’s young conservatives up to? For those who missed the 1939 pro-Nazi rally in NYC, check out this video.