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Paul Manafort, the chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign who has been linked to a pro-Russia lobbying scandal, has resigned.
[...] Manafort has drawn fire for millions of dollars in undisclosed payments he allegedly received for lobbying efforts on behalf of a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party.
[...] The documents allegedly show funds allocated to Manafort totalling more than $12.7m between November 2007 and October 2012. But the agency emphasised that it had not determined whether Manafort had actually received that money.
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Chairman of Trump's Presidential Campaign Resigns Amid Pro-Russia Lobbying Scandal
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @12:01PM
She plays the anti-vax game with plausible deniability. [washingtonpost.com] She says she's pro-vax, for example:
"I think there’s no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases — smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication,"
But then she goes around repeating anti-vax tropes like:
"There were concerns among physicians about what the vaccination schedule meant, the toxic substances like mercury which used to be rampant in vaccines. There were real questions that needed to be addressed. I think some of them at least have been addressed. I don’t know if all of them have been addressed."
The fundamental issue with anti-vaxxers is a lack of trust in the people doing the science. So statements like the above are central to anti-vaxxer ideology. Whatever her actual beliefs, she's willing to use anti-vax rhetoric on the record.