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‘Bada bing bada boom’: Paul Manafort’s attempt to smear a jailed Ukrainian politician - The Washington Post Sunday January 6th, 2019 at 8:29 AM - Manafort’s Israeli link - Google Search

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‘Bada bing bada boom’: Paul Manafort’s attempt to smear a jailed Ukrainian politician Politics Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko, shown in 2014, was the target of a smear campaign by Paul Manafort, new U.S. court records show. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters) By Anne Gearan September 14, 2018 Paul Manafort’s guilty plea Friday came with new evidence of a dirty-tricks campaign involving a jailed Ukrainian opposition politician, the Israeli government, a U.S. official who appears to be then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and what Manafort allegedly called “[O]bama jews.” The complicated 2012 scheme amounted to an effort to smear the Ukrainian politician, Yulia Tymoshenko, as an anti-Semite, according to court documents filed Friday in the Manafort case. Tymoshenko was then in jail, and Clinton was among the international critics who suggested that Manafort’s pro-Russian client, then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, had put her there. Tymoshenko’s political party was