Muller: Manafort used 'Obama's Jews' to smear Ukrainian leader
Israeli Defense Minister Liberman seems to be implicated in the affair.
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Paul Manafort tried to use misleading charges of antisemitism against a
senior Obama administration official to pressure the former president
to go soft on his Ukrainian client, Viktor Yanukovych, in 2012,
according to documents released on Friday by Special Counsel Robert
Mueller's office.
New "superseding" criminal information was released this morning as part
of a plea agreement reached between Manafort, Donald Trump's former
campaign chairman who faced charges for lobbying law violations, and
Mueller, the special prosecutor investigating Russian interference in
the 2016 presidential election. Manafort has already been convicted on
several counts of federal bank and tax fraud brought by the special
counsel.Mueller describes a scheme by Manafort to manipulate "Obama's
Jews"– in Manafort's own words– to pressure the administration to
disavow Yanukovych's political archrival, Yulia Tymoshenko, by
highlighting her alleged ties to antisemitic groups and spreading
stories that an Obama "Cabinet official" supporting her cause was
antisemitic by proxy.
Manafort "coordinated with a senior Israeli government official" to
publicize the story, Mueller charged, seeking to convince the
administration that "the Jewish community will take this out on Obama in
the [2012 presidential] election if he does nothing." The Israeli
official is not named.
He then fed claims to Obama officials that Yanukovych was working to
quell the manicured crisis, hoping to ingratiate him with the
administration.
Manafort's deep ties to Ukraine's pro-Russia figures, paired with his
prominent role in Trump's presidential campaign, has drawn Mueller's
attention as he investigates whether US persons coordinated with Moscow
to influence the 2016 race.
US media reports that Mueller is also investigating political influence campaigns by additional foreign powers.
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