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As Trump pumps fist with his medic in waiting, take a look at how other corrupt leaders flee.

Putin’s mentor Anatoly Sobchak “fled Russia in 1997 amid corruption allegations”—the official reason was a heart problem but he never went to a hospital.
https://www.rferl.org/a/questions-remain-about-death-of-man-who-made-putin/26867539.html @RFERL

15 Years Later, Questions Remain About Death Of The Man Who Made Putin

Anatoly Sobchak, the man credited with launching Vladimir Putin’s political career, died 15 years ago of a reported heart attack. Some have speculated that Putin was involved in his death -- conjec...

https://www.rferl.org/a/questions-remain-about-death-of-man-who-made-putin/26867539.html

1/ Trump’s puppet predecessor Viktor Yanukovych—another Manafort client and Putin proxy—fled to Russia after Ukraine citizens protested his corruption. https://twitter.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1191069813893783552

https://twitter.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1191069813893783552

2/ Another Manafort dictator-client Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines for Guam after protests sparked by election fraud/corruption. Marcos cited a kidney ailment and sources at the time said his hospitalization was “precautionary”.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/26/world/marcos-flees-and-is-taken-to-guam-us-recognizes-aquino-as-president.html @nytimes archives

MARCOS FLEES AND IS TAKEN TO GUAM; U.S. RECOGNIZES AQUINO AS PRESIDENT

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/26/world/marcos-flees-and-is-taken-to-guam-us-recognizes-aquino-as-president.html

3/ Manafort, whose firm with Roger Stone was dubbed the “torturer’s lobby”—was hired to rehab the image of Nigeria’s Sani Abacha—who topped a list of most corrupt leaders in history. Abacha died of a heart attack after an alleged poisoning.
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/guests-available-experts-trump-campaign-manager-paul-manaforts-consultation-ukraine-dictator-clients-use-anonymous-shell-companies/ @Global_Witness

GUESTS AVAILABLE: Experts on Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort’s Consultation in Ukraine,...

Global Witness offers Experts for On-Air Analysis, and Resources for Producers Planning Manafort Coverage

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/guests-available-experts-trump-campaign-manager-paul-manaforts-consultation-ukraine-dictator-clients-use-anonymous-shell-companies/

4/ “Manafort also worked for Indonesian military leader and former president Suharto, who has been described as one of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century.” Sickly, Suharto spent final years under house arrest fighting corruption charges.
https://www.newsweek.com/heres-where-paul-manafort-did-business-corrupt-dictators-1061470?amp=1 @Newsweek

Here are all the places Paul Manafort did business with corrupt dictators

Donald Trump's former campaign manager has dealt with many foreign leaders accused of human rights abuses during his decades-long career as a political lobbyist.

https://www.newsweek.com/heres-where-paul-manafort-did-business-corrupt-dictators-1061470?amp=1

5/ Manafort also worked for Somalia’s military ruler Siad Barre—accused of presiding over “summary killings, arbitrary arrest..torture, rape”. Barre was ousted and fled to Kenya and Nigeria and died of one of those sudden dictator heart attacks.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/31/donald-trump-paul-manafort-riva-levinson-book @guardian

Trump chair Paul Manafort: 'mercenary' lobbyist and valuable asset

Riva Levinson found herself at odds with her ‘narcissistic’ former boss, but she agrees with former guerrilla fighter Jardo Muekalia: the lobbyist is effective

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/31/donald-trump-paul-manafort-riva-levinson-book

6/ Trump’s campaign manager—the one in prison—worked for Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko, who was ousted and fled to Gbadolite to “his marble palace known as African Versailles. He took family members and truckloads of belongings.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/05/17/zaires-mobutu-cedes-power-flees-capital/e6580be5-baa9-44a3-ac3e-41323f26ac91/ @washingtonpost 1997

ZAIRE'S MOBUTU CEDES POWER, FLEES CAPITAL

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/05/17/zaires-mobutu-cedes-power-flees-capital/e6580be5-baa9-44a3-ac3e-41323f26ac91/

7/ “Former Senator Bill Bradley, of New Jersey, accused Manafort's lobbying firm of having lengthened the civil war in Angola by supporting Jonas Savimbi”—who didn’t flee or feign ill health. After surviving 12 assassination attempts, he was shot 15 times. https://www.newsweek.com/heres-where-paul-manafort-did-business-corrupt-dictators-1061470?amp=1

Here are all the places Paul Manafort did business with corrupt dictators

Donald Trump's former campaign manager has dealt with many foreign leaders accused of human rights abuses during his decades-long career as a political lobbyist.

https://www.newsweek.com/heres-where-paul-manafort-did-business-corrupt-dictators-1061470?amp=1

8/ So this brings up back to Trump, who knows once he’s out of office he’s in deep shit. As you can see from Manafort’s other dictator clients, these stories never end well—fleeing, house arrest, exile, poisonings, murder.

Just ask Putin, who is a prisoner of his own corruption. https://twitter.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1164248706238955520