30 May 2016

Top Trump Aide Paul Manafort
Led the ‘Torturers’ Lobby’

Paul Manafort and the partners at his firm made a fortune 
repping some of the most despicable dictators of the 20th century


Daily Beast:
Over the course of a long lobbying career in D.C., top Trump aide Paul Manafort and his firm made a fortune fronting for a group of clients once referred to as the 'torturers’ lobby.'

So when Manafort accused opponent Ted Cruz of using 'gestapo tactics' to court Republican delegates on Meet the Press this past Sunday—it’s something he may have quite a bit of experience with firsthand. 

Manafort was a principal at the lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly (along with another top Trump ally, Nixon alum Roger Stone), a K Street powerhouse with close ties to the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, as well as top Republicans on Capitol Hill. 

But over the years, they made millions by representing a rogue’s gallery of clients far away from D.C.’s genteel corridors of power: dictators, guerilla groups, and despots with no regard for human rights—including one man responsible for mass amputations, and another who oversaw
state-sanctioned rape...


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