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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

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and it is not right,and it is dangerous territory for the rule of law. Safeguard or surrender. You choose. EFTA00065255 Barr pushes back against Trump's criticism of Justice Dept., says tweets 'make it impossible for me to do my job' The Washington Post By Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky 2/13/2

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rcy': Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims," read the headline on the Nov. 16, 2019, story by New York Times reporters Austin Ramzy and Chris Buckley. The piece drew from 400-plus pages of Chinese documents that "offer a striking picture of how the hidden machinery of the Chinese

ons,” New York Times, March 9, 2016, http://www.nytimes. com/2016/03/10/world/asia/china-news-censorship-two-sessions.html. 20. Michael Forsythe and Austin Ramzy, “China Censors Mentions of ‘Panama Papers Leaks,” New York Times, April 5, 2016, http:// www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/world/asia/china-panama-papers.h

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

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