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, 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 of foreign political leaders, including several with distinctly autocrati

se, 2016), http‘Wfreedomhouse otglreport/heedom•world/free- dom•vmrl47I116t 3. See, among others, Steve Rosenberg, 'Russian Media's Love Affair with Trump:British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), November 2, 20161 4. Javier Corrales, "Autocratic Legalism in Venezuela,' Journal of Democracy 26, na 2 (Ap

yed a clear preference for Republi- can candidate Donald Trump and disdain for Clinton.3) For Putin, the

ce the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor? The answer to that question may never be

/2016/07/02/opinionfin-venezuelalpolitical.prisoners-as-pawns.html. 3. Albaraa Abdullah, 'Egypt Fills Its Prisons, But Don't Worry, It'll Make More,' Al-Monitor, February 3, 2016, I-dixt/www al•monitoc rnm/mdsetnriginaIeJ2016/02/agyot-ardhnritias•nrisnn•frees-speech-sisi Iwol. 4. 'Bahrain: in Annual Report

ht of the Iraq war, then-US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spoke of "known unknowns" — foreseeable

Article 1. The New York Times Tripping on His Own Red Line? David E. Sanger Article 2. Foreign Policy The Gamble David Rothkopf Article 3. Al-Monitor How Will Hezbollah Respond To a Strike on Syria? By: An Al-Monitor Correspondent in Beirut Article 4. The Observer Jordan fears the worst as Syr

reedom House Chapter 6 Flacks and Friends Did the Russian government attempt to surrepti- tiously influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor? The answer to that question may never be definitively known. There is, neverthe- less, a critical mass of evidence that Kremlin-allied forces

2016/07/02/opinion/in-venezuela-political-prisoners-as-pawns.html. 3. Albaraa Abdullah, “Egypt Fills Its Prisons, But Don’t Worry, It'll Make More,” Al-Monitor, February 3, 2016, http://www.al-monitor. com/pulse/originals/2016/02/egypt-authorities-prison-free-speech-sisi.html. 4. “Bahrain,” in Annual Repor

t-truth era,” in which lies and distortions carry as much weight as facts. Clearly, at least some of this hand-wring- ing was a partisan reaction to Trumps victory. But it followed an election in which the winning candidate falsely claimed, among other things, that the balloting was rigged against him, t