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Flacks for autocrats Paul Manafort, a Washington lobbyist and consultant, had a long career of work for leading Republicans, including presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. But by the time he became Donald Trump's campaign chairman in 2016, Manafort was best known for his work on behal
bjective and independent, Russian television and Russian media generally were no- table for their liveliness and diversity during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. All did not sing out of the same hymnal, and most influential outlets reflected a variety of opinions about government policies, including the Kr
th me could turn out to have been “complicated,” it was no slip of the tongue. He was fully aware that his observation would appear in print. Unlike Richard Nixon, who never dreamed that Avs words would be published in a book, Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Oval Office Tapes, edited by Stanley Kutner: “Bob [Hald
good, that’ s good.” And | replied, “Il gave you a blow job, but! didn’ t swallow.” He started laughing hysterically, just like that time he did with Boris Yeltsin. Bill liked my sense of humor. That’ s why we went from flirtation to friendship. However, the reasons | visited the White House thirty-seven times
were calling for those ex-leaders to be hauled off and placed in the dock. President Gerald Ford, in offering a blanket pardon for any crimes that Richard Nixon might have committed while in office, bluntly noted that "The law . . . is no respecter of persons; but the law is a respecter of reality." Ford co
be too destabilizing for the country. When Vladimir Putin became president of Russia, he offered an even more extensive pardon to his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, as well as to Yeltsin's family, citing similar considerations. Perhaps an even more relevant example to the Egyptian case was the fate of South A
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objective and independent, Russian television and Russian media generally were no- table for their liveliness and diversity during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. All did not sing out of the same hymnal, and most influential outlets reflected a variety of opinions about government policies, including the Kreml
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019250 →. Flacks for autocrats Paul Manafort, a Washington lobbyist and consultant, had a long career of work for leading Republicans, including presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. But by the time he became Donald Trump's campaign chairman in 2016, Manafort was best known for his work on behalf o
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ght end up. It's like the scene in Oliver Stone's Nixon, when Nixon looks up at a portrait of JFK and say
istorically, fraught with failure. I remember similar logic in the summer of 1998, when the accepted mantra was that the US would bail out Russia and Boris Yeltsin, since President Clinton would not want to see a nuclear power like Russia slide back into Soviet rule, or anarchy (that view turned out to be wrong)
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Cynthia Nixon
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Donald Trump
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Joe Biden
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Ronald Reagan
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Marc Rich
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Prince Andrew
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Julie K. Brown
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Samantha Power
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Bashar al-Assad
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