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no_hypocrisy

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7. Talking about "favorite dictators" . . . . .

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Sun Aug 4, 2024, 06:41 PM

Aug 2024

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Ferdinand Marcos dropped at least $10 million to Ronald Reagan's campaign in 1980.

And you know what Reagan did? He didn't keep Marcos in office despite the "donation".

This has been done before. And you know who helped with the financing? Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, who were in a lobbying/finance business at the time, BMSK. The business took millions of dollars from RW dictators all over the world, to have easy access to Reagan.

(Found this out in Joe Conason's new book The Longest Con.)

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