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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

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s op-ed published in July 2017. Two Julys later, Trump's politicization of the DOJ is gaining new momentum

years Trump has been battering DOJ and completely politicizing its work. Sometimes he got what he wanted out of them and sometimes he didn't," says Matthew Miller, a Justice Department spokesman under President Obama. "Now he's got an A.G. who will talk publicly about the Democrats 'spying' and spin the Muell

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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

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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