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Paul Manafort's guilty plea on Friday came with new evidence of a dirty campaign involving a jailed Ukrainian opposition politician, the Israeli government, a US official who appears to be the secretary of state Hillary Clinton and what Manafort would have called "[O]bama jews.
The complicated program of 2012 resulted in a denigration of the Ukrainian woman politician, Yulia Tymoshenko, as antisemitic, according to court documents filed Friday in the Manafort case. Tymoshenko was then in prison, and Clinton was among the international critics who suggested that the pro-Russian client of Manafort, then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, had put her there.
Tymoshenko's political party was participating in the October 2012 legislative elections, and Manafort boasted in documents cited by Special Adviser Robert S. Mueller III that he could "sow the stench".
Manafort pled guilty to two criminal charges and pledged to cooperate with Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US presidential election and whether Trump's associates may have conspired with Moscow.
Its 2012 plan was to "tarnish Tymoshenko in the United States" and to pressure the Obama administration to stand out from it, according to a statement released Friday by prosecutors.
The plan does not seem to have worked. Tymoshenko's party did well in the 2012 elections and is planning a presidential election next year. In addition, the Obama administration continued to criticize Yanukovych and unfairly prosecute Ms. Tymoshenko.
Former Trump campaign director Paul Manafort pleaded guilty Friday in a deal with prosecutors. (Yuri Gripas / Reuters)
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Manafort "orchestrated a project to have, as he wrote in a contemporary paper,"[O]Bama Jews' lobbied the Administration to disavow Tymoshenko and support Yanukovych, "the prosecutor wrote.
Manafort "sought to undermine the United States' support for Tymoshenko by circulating articles in the United States that a senior government official (who had been an important critic of Yanukovych's treatment against Tymoshenko) was supporting the government." anti-Semitism because the official supported Tymoshenko. formed a political alliance with a Ukrainian party that espoused antisemitic views, "the indictment said.
This official seems to have been Clinton, who was then finishing her four-year term as Secretary of State and had become a critic of what she called anti-democratic currents in Ukraine. The arguments advanced by Manafort coincide with those of an article published on the Breitbart News right-wing website that attacks Clinton.
A Clinton spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comments on Friday.
Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party presidential candidate, meets Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in New York on September 19, 2016. (Melina Mara / The Washington Post)
The association was based on a political alliance that Tymoshenko's party had formed with a movement known as Svoboda, or Freedom, which had been associated with anti-Semitic views.
Manafort "privately coordinated with a senior Israeli government official to issue a statement publishing this story" and "then, with a secret knowledge of this Israeli statement, worked to spread this story in the United States," prosecutors say.
Manafort wrote at the time that "I have someone on the NY Post. Bada bing bada boom, "says the document.
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Manafort's goal was to "make the administration understand that the Jewish community will attack Obama on election day if he does nothing," prosecutors wrote citing contemporary writings.
The New York Post apparently did not bite, but an article appeared on Breitbart describing the links between Tymoshenko's party and Svoboda, and quoting a statement by Israeli top diplomat of the time, Avigdor Liberman.
"A prominent Jewish leader, who asked to remain anonymous, says that Clinton New York Times The current Ukrainian administration has "created a neo-Nazi Frankenstein by granting de facto approval of Mrs. Tymoshenko and her choices," Breitbart's article said.
On October 27, 2012, the statement of the Israeli Foreign Ministry said the country was "concerned about the rise of extremist anti-Semitic forces in Ukraine" and cited the partnership agreement.
"Israel is concerned about the agreement recently signed between the Batkivshchyna Party and the Party of Extremist Freedom, whose anti-Semitic attacks have repeatedly aroused resentment in both Ukraine and Israel," reads the statement of the cabinet Liberman.
The Svoboda political movement "glorified" what he called "the fight against Muscovites and Jews," the statement said.
"The expression of such views resembles black pages of the history of the last century, which led humanity to the tragedy of the second world war. Israel condemns anti-Semitic demonstrations of any kind and expresses the hope that common sense prevails. "
The Israeli statement came three days after Clinton and the EU Foreign Minister published a New York Times column mentioning Tymoshenko.
"We regret that the condemnation of opposition leaders in trials that failed to meet international standards prevents them from standing in parliamentary elections," wrote Clinton and the European Union Catherine Ashton. "The Ukrainian government must tackle these selective prosecutions, including the case of former Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko and other former senior officials."
Loveday Morris and Ruth Eglash in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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