Chris Baugh

2. A long time ago, there was a man named Paul Manafort. Paul Manafort was a GOP operative who exported his political expertise.

@chris_baugh_ excellent thread; btw, another one of Putin's operatives in Ukraine, Devine, ended up running Bernie's campaign. Coincidence?

@SheWhoVotes I don't see it with Devine. Plenty of people export their political consultancy overseas.

@chris_baugh_ yes, but Devine did 3 campaigns for him over course of 3 years. Like Manafort, he also worked for several other fascists

@SheWhoVotes I get the concern but I'm not here to re litigate the primary. Devine is a shark,Manafort ran Torturer's Lobby

@chris_baugh_ so did Devine—that's my point. He and Manafort were Putin's two top goons in Ukraine.

@SheWhoVotes @chris_baugh_ Sanders is not PEOTUS.

3. He and Roger Stone ran what was known in DC as The Torturer's Lobby. They worked with warlords and despots.

@chris_baugh_ Don't forget he was also a player in Watergate - honed his skill working for tricky dick

4. Paul Manafort even worked closely with Russian oligarchs and kleptocrats with ties to V. Putin.

@chris_baugh_ Why do you refer to rich Russians as "oligarchs" and "kleptocrats" and not do the same when referring to rich Americans?

@TomHillgardner @chris_baugh_ Post Soviet privatisation of nationalised assets meant transfer of power prev. held by state to a few.

@TomHillgardner @chris_baugh_ Such a swift change of power structure under exceptional circumstances makes it more applicable to Russia.

@TomHillgardner @chris_baugh_ Or at least made it a good term at the time for those capitalising on change, and it's stuck.

@Ellis_Samizdat @TomHillgardner basically yeah. I think oligarchy is a pretty appropriate term for current US, too, tbh

5. Manafort was one of the operatives who worked in Ukraine to elect a pro-Putin government. This is a verifiable fact.

@chris_baugh_ @peterjukes Oh, rhe Ukrainian connection goes way, waaay beyond that.

@scsazak @chris_baugh_ to the UK - does Firtash link with Trump?

@peterjukes @chris_baugh_ I know some people who looked into it. I don't know what they found. There are other laterals as well, though.

@scsazak @peterjukes Bernie didn't change the DNC platform to include support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine

@chris_baugh_ @scsazak @peterjukes No, but Sandra normalized not providing income taxes. His Bots & Bros were exactly like Trumps.

@mercurygirl7 @scsazak @peterjukes I resent that as someone who supported Sanders. I don't think there was stuff hiding in his taxes