how we got here
team trump goes to jail
drumpy’s demise
kyiv. the trump administration’s preoccupation with ukraine traces back to the doxing of paul manafort’s daughter by a obscure darknet hactivist group named cyberguerilla. the dump contained almost 300,000 text messages linking manafort to millions of dollars in secret, illegal offshore payments for his work in ukraine. the messages confirmed suspicions that manafort is a crook and a sexual deviant.
calibre western media largely ignored the february 2017 dump, focusing instead on the so-called black ledger, a partial handwritten account of payouts to ex-ukrainian president’s viktor yanukovych’s minions, including manafort. the ledger was removed from yanukovych’s party of regions headquarters in kyiv on or around february 18, 2014 after anti-government protesters set fire to the building. bits of it popped up during the summer of 2016 when manafort was picked to manage trump’s election campaign, co…
