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Franklin Foer introduces us to Paul Manafort<\/a>. Paul Manafort is a very bad man.<\/p>\n

In lefty-ish non-profit circles, one often runs across a famous quote from the sociologist Margaret Mead: \u201cNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it\u2019s the only thing that ever has.\u201d That\u2019s inspiring when you see it taped on the side of\u00a0a\u00a0filing cabinet in the church-basement office of some rag-tag homeless advocacy group. But it\u2019s also got a darker side.<\/p>\n

I can imagine the same quote hanging in the offices of, say, the Project for a New American Century, or the Heartland Institute, or the Club for Growth. I can imagine a man like Paul Manafort having that same quote sitting on his desk, probably in some expensive-looking brass-engraved plaque. I can imagine him looking at it occasionally and smiling.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unsettling to imagine Paul Manafort smiling. If he is smiling, it\u2019s because he\u2019s winning \u2014 because his small, committed group is, yet again, changing the world. And that usually means someone, somewhere, is getting killed.<\/p>\n

\"Manafort\"<\/a>
Reuters photo of Paul Manafort by Jim Bourg via Slate. Click pic for link to full article.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You\u2019ve seen characters like him before, usually in movies (these days, probably played by Brian Cox). And you\u2019ve glimpsed them on the news or in the paper, too, but off to the side of the frame, unidentified, their presence unexplained. They rarely draw attention to themselves, but if you start to pay attention you start noticing that they\u2019re always somewhere in such pictures \u2014 always lurking off to the side there, for decades, as the faces at the podium change. And when you start to piece together all the\u00a0different events and occasions in which you see them, you may start rethinking Mead\u2019s observation about a small group of committed people and you may start to find it far less inspiring.<\/p>\n

Paul Manafort and his lobbying firm of Black, Manafort, and Stone are not thoughtful \u2014 smart, yes, and shrewd, but not thoughtful. Nor are they citizens \u2014 that\u2019s not where their allegiance lies. But they are a small group of committed people\u00a0and they have\u00a0been changing the world for a long, long time. Never for the better.<\/p>\n

Back in the 1980s, for example, Manafort\u2019s firm helped some South\u00a0Jersey slumlords fleece HUD for millions while\u00a0exploiting and preying on\u00a0low-income tenants:<\/p>\n

Manafort \u2026\u00a0took on clients and causes that even most of his colleagues on K Street considered outside the usual bounds.<\/p>\n

\"Motivational\"Black, Manafort, and Stone hired alumni of the Department of Housing and Urban Development then used those connections to win $43 million in \u201cmoderate rehabilitation funds\u201d for a renovation project in Upper Deerfield, New Jersey. Local officials had no interest in the grants, as they considered the shamble of cinder blocks long past the point of repair. The money flowed from HUD regardless, and developers paid Manafort\u2019s firm a $326,000 fee for its handiwork. He later bought a 20 percent share in the project. Two years later, rents doubled without any sign of improvement. Conditions remained, in Mary McGrory\u2019s words, \u201cstrictly Third World.\u201d It was such an outrageous scam that congressmen flocked to make a spectacle of it. Manafort calmly took his flaying. \u201cYou might call it influence-peddling. I call it lobbying,\u201d he explained in one hearing. \u201cThat\u2019s a definitional debate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strangely, the HUD scandal proved a marketing boon for the firm. An aide to Mobutu Sese Seko told the journalist Art Levine, \u201cThat only shows how important they are!\u201d Indeed, Manafort enticed the African dictator to hire the firm. Many of the world\u2019s dictators eventually became his clients. \u201cName a dictator and Black, Manafort will name the account,\u201d Levine wrote. (Levine\u2019s piece, published in Spy, featured a sidebar ranking the ethical behavior of Washington lobbyists: It found Black, Manafort the worst of the bunch.) The client list included Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos (with a $900,000 yearly contract) and the despots of the Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Kenya, Equatorial Guinea, and Somalia. When the Center for Public Integrity detailed the firm\u2019s work, it titled the report \u201cThe Torturers\u2019 Lobby.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You might not think that a slumlord on the edge of\u00a0the Pine Barrens would be only one step removed from the kleptocratic tyrant who\u00a0leeched the life out of the DCR, but connections like that are woven throughout Foer\u2019s long report on Paul Manafort. Raymond Reddington would be envious of Manafort\u2019s Rolodex. Indeed, the article reads like an episode guide to The Blacklist<\/em> \u2014 an endless parade of rogues, tyrants, criminals, oligarchs, Watergate ratf\u2013kers, arms dealers, and almost anyone you\u2019ve ever written an Amnesty International letter to on behalf of some political prisoner.<\/p>\n

But as thorough as he attempts to be, Foer is unable to calculate\u00a0the two totals \u2014 the two vast and immeasurable sums \u2014 that lie at the heart of this story. He cannot quantify the body count and the huge toll of human suffering brought about by Manafort\u2019s decades of work igniting and prolonging wars, propping up dictators and stifling democracy. Nor can he quantify the massive fortune Manafort has been paid for all this dark work over all these years. (\u201cMoney arrives to Manafort circuitously,\u201d Foer writes, \u201csometimes through the dodgiest of routes.\u201d And he follows one thread as far as possible, through a Lebanese arms dealer named\u00a0Abdul Rahman al-Assir and a French legal scandal referred to as \u201cthe Karachi Affair.\u201d)<\/p>\n

All of this is in addition to the work that Manafort and his colleagues\u00a0have been doing here in America as campaign consultants. He worked on Gerald Ford\u2019s campaign in 1976, and then on Reagan\u2019s Southern Strategy in 1980 and the George H.W. Bush campaign in 1988 (al-Assir attended Bush\u2019s inauguration gala as Manafort\u2019s guest). That\u2019s the experience that led Donald Trump to hire him as, initially, an adviser for the delegate process in this year\u2019s GOP primary. Foer writes:<\/p>\n

Given Manafort\u2019s experience and skill set, it never made sense that he would be limited to such a narrow albeit crucial task as delegate accumulation. Indeed, it didn\u2019t take long before he attempted to seize control of the Trump operation \u2014 managing the budget, buying advertising, steering Trump toward a teleprompter and away from flaming his opponents, appearing on air as a primary surrogate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But as Foer writes in his conclusion, the really pertinent experience Manafort brings to this role wasn\u2019t his prior work in Republican politics, but his long decades of handling reprehensible tyrants and warlords:<\/p>\n

Manafort has spent a career working on behalf of clients that the rest of his fellow lobbyists and strategists have deemed just below their not-so-high moral threshold. Manafort has consistently given his clients a patina of respectability that has allowed them to migrate into the mainstream of opinion, or close enough to the mainstream. He has a particular knack for taking autocrats and presenting them as defenders of democracy. If he could convince the respectable world that thugs like Savimbi and Marcos are friends of America, then why not do the same for Trump? One of his friends told me, \u201cHe wanted to do his thing on home turf. He wanted one last shot at the big prize.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right now, a small group of committed people are intent on changing the world. It\u2019s going to take a large group of thoughtful, committed citizens to stop them.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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