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
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
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
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
9/ UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER: The plight of the dictator/war criminal. https://twitter.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1164248412050472960
10/ SEND IN THE CLOWNS: What’s a proto-dictator to do when losing power means jail, or if you’re a treasony b*stard, even worse. Send in the ass🤡. Take note media, each time you give the punk kid a platform.💀 https://twitter.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1133624407350374400
11/ PAST IS PROLOGUE: Russia’s cyber interference masks its inherent weakness. https://twitter.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1197759105378615297
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