Who is behind Trump and Clinton

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American politics is a huge industry that has its stars and its outcasts. Participation in presidential elections for workers in this industry is, as a rule, the highest career achievement, and it is consultants, managers, strategists and press attaches who determine what the candidate does and says. On the eve of the strangest presidential elections of recent decades «Medusa» She looked more closely at the people who made the campaigns for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as they were.

Hillary Clinton Headquarters
In three words: Conservative. Professional. Boring.

Hillary Clinton has been involved in politics for several decades. Photo facebook.com/hillaryclinton

Hillary Clinton has been involved in politics for several decades and has even tried to become a president - it is not surprising that she plays according to all the rules adopted in such cases in America. Hillary’s campaign employs more 700 people sitting in the Brooklyn headquarters office — and that’s not counting local infrastructure; each posting on the candidate’s Twitter account is coordinated with several people; everything is organized, planned and planned. The result is a very technical campaign without going beyond what is permitted or possible. On the one hand, everything works like a clock - Clinton can almost do without outright PR failures, and inconvenient topics (such as her refusal to issue texts of speeches to bank employees, for which she received hundreds of thousands of dollars) quickly hesitate. On the other hand, Clinton’s headquarters didn’t manage to dispel the general impression of its candidate as a person who is never sincere and always says what is profitable for her - perhaps because this headquarters itself works mechanistically and well.
The main man. John Podesta, an exemplary Washington insider who loves to run and is fond of aliens. (Podesta even said that he would try to convince Clinton, if she became president, to declassify all government files related to UFOs). In 1988, Podesta founded, together with his brother, the lobbyist company The Podesta Group, which still exists today and which, in particular, was accused of collaborating with Sberbank and with the leadership of Saudi Arabia, a country where there are great difficulties in observing human rights.

However, in the last 25 years, Podesta mostly did not work there, but in the White House: an old acquaintance of the Clinton family, he served as deputy head of the administration of Bill Clinton when he was president, and dealt with the consequences of several scandals, for example, Monica Lewinsky. He collaborated with Podesta and Barack Obama - and, quite likely, if Hillary Clinton becomes president, he will head its administration.
It was the mailbox Podesta in March hacked by hackers Fancy Bear, which can be associated with Russia. The correspondence itself was published by WikiLeaks in October - but nothing too incriminating was ever discovered that once again confirmed Podesta’s reputation as an extremely cautious and professional person.
Assistant. Huma Abedin, a beautiful woman of Pakistani descent who helps Hillary Clinton almost from school and is one of her main confidants (Hillary even once said that if she had a second daughter, she would be Hum). Several congressional investigations were related to Abedin — her family was suspected of having links with sponsors of terrorism; she herself was reproached for improper use of working time as a civil servant, but the far greater problem for the Clinton campaign is Hume's husband, Anthony Wiener. The former hope of the Democratic Party and a former congressman, Wiener was forced to suspend his career when he accidentally tweeted his photo in a half-naked form, intended for an unfamiliar woman (not his wife) - and when he tried to return to politics, it turned out that after the scandal he continued to be obscene correspondence with different girls in social networks.

Both cases the family of Wiener and Abedin somehow survived - but the third round of sexing scandal, which occurred in August, still led to the fact that Assistant Clinton announced that she was at odds with her husband. However, the most interesting thing happened a few days ago - when the director of the FBI announced that in the process of investigating Wiener's possible obscene correspondence with an underage girl on his computer, there were potentially noteworthy electronic messages related to Hillary Clinton. Thus, a week before the election, the story sharply actualized around the fact that Clinton, when she was secretary of state, used a private email server and could issue important state secrets. What effect this will have on the election results is not yet clear - but it can have it.
Manager. Robbie Mook, 36-year-old graduate of the University of Columbia - where he studied the art of antiquity, but began working in politics as a freshman when the leading drama group from Mook called him to help with the campaign of a candidate for the Vermont State Senate. Muk succeeded - and since then, rather quickly rose in the structure of political workers of the Democratic Party, eventually rising to the highest position in the profession. Mook is the first open gay in the history of the United States to lead a mainstream presidential campaign.

Family. Her husband, Hillary Clinton, is known to be Bill, and he was 42 President of the United States. Of course, he is one of the most important supporters of his wife and is extremely active in the campaign - on the other hand, the Clinton husband apparently has aged and sometimes has difficulty controlling himself; during the campaign, he departed several times from the stipulated and safe scenarios, for example, to argue with the activists of Black Lives Matter, - and the headquarters of Hillary then had to deal with the reaction of the media. The extent to which the spouses have good and close relations, considering everything that was in the past, is not quite clear - but they try to behave like a married couple. He actively supports Hillary and her daughter Chelsea, who works for the Clinton Foundation, a charitable organization that has repeatedly been accused of being too close to the financial industry and dubious foreign governments. Chelsea itself is also involved in the financial industry: her husband is an investment banker who worked for Goldman Sachs for 8 for years.

Trump Headquarters
In three words: Chaotic. Operational. Impudent.

Trump employs four times fewer people than Clinton. Photo facebook.com/DonaldTrump

Trump works on 4 times fewer people than on Clinton. He tweets himself, sometimes at 3 in the morning (it was at this time of the day that Trump decided to insult the former Miss Universe against him, and then wrote: “At least you know that I am even ready to deal with the situation at night!” "). At Trump's headquarters, key people changed several times - and the outgoing ones always left with scandal. The number of excesses that occurred with Trump that would have buried any other candidate cannot be counted. On the ground, for campaigning and organizing events, he usually resorts to using the infrastructure that the Republican National Committee has - although he also has many opponents in his own party (according to The New York Times, more than 150 Republican heavyweights opposed Trump or recalled statements about his support, including John McCain and Mitt Romney, for example, running for president of the party in 2008 and 2012). Despite this (as well as endless scandals and accusations of racism, sexism and sexual harassment), Trump’s lagging behind Hillary Clinton a few days before election day is only three percentage points - and this, of course, is a real miracle. Which among other things also means that in the future the American political system will certainly appropriate and use the methods of the Trump campaign - including not only chaos and provocations, but also the ability to use the negative media reputation and respond to crises as quickly as possible (for example, when the Pope spoke negatively about Trump, the candidate's answer was ready in record time - and of course, on Twitter).
The main man. Trump had several of them. First, the headquarters was led by Corey Lewandowski, a little-known conservative political technologist from New England, who had previously organized an election campaign (and its loser) for the only time. Then Lewandowski allowed himself to push away a journalist who was trying to ask Trump a question, received a lawsuit for it - and the rival forces at headquarters happily ate him.
In the late spring and summer of 2016, Trump’s campaign was Paul Manafort, a veteran political consultant who helped President Gerald Ford in 1970 and also noted cooperation with a number of dubious foreign figures ranging from Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to Viktor Yanukovych. The last one killed him: in July, several American media outlets, rummaging through Manafort’s Ukrainian past, found that Yanukovych’s notebook had indicated cash payments to the adviser, and that he had not quite legally lobbied for the interests of the Party of Regions in the United States.
Manafort was replaced by Steve Bannon - the man whom Bloomberg called the organizer of a “big conservative plot”, and the head of the provocative right-wing online publication Breitbart, which is perhaps the only relatively large media that supported Trump at a very early stage. Bannon is also the creator of the non-profit organization “Institute for Government Accountability”. This organization, for example, has published a book, The Clinton's Cash, detailing and convincingly showing the dubious links between the Clinton Foundation and various governments and businessmen.

In other words, the Trump team throughout the campaign almost permanently reigned mess, but one can not say that the behavior of the candidate changed greatly depending on who was at the head of his headquarters. When Manafort took over the business, Trump slightly put out his explosive rhetoric - but not for long; It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Republican candidate all along the way behaved in approximately the same shameless manner. Apparently, simply because he has the truth of such a character - and no advisers can influence it.
Assistant. Trump has a lot of advisers - among them is Fox News creator Roger Ails and the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani. Most of the people close to Trump discussed a man who formally no longer has a relationship with the campaign, Roger Stone. 64, a veteran strategic strategist, Stone worked for Richard Nixon and was always known for his penchant for dirty PR methods; he is usually credited with inventing the term “ratfuck” (ratfuck) to describe such tactics.

64 is a veteran strategic strategist, Stone has worked for Richard Nixon. Photo facebook.com/rogerstone

Trump's followers seem to be critical of the wife of rival Ted Cruz, or the constant demonization of the media, or simply outright lies - in many ways from this arsenal; and it is characteristic that it was Stone who consulted Trump at the very early stage of his political career, when he was only wondering whether to run for president. Since August, 2015-st Stone is not formally an adviser to Trump, but they say that they call each other regularly and remain friends altogether.
Manager. In some respects, Trump's headquarters is no less progressive than Clinton's headquarters: that is, the first gay at the helm of a big presidential campaign; this is the first woman. Kellyann Conway worked for several decades in various conservative near-political structures (in particular, she did a lot of polling of voters that Trump loves very much), and she came to the Trump campaign after another headquarters shakeup in August. She didn’t manage to do too much - and mostly appeared on a variety of news programs, explaining to Trump about certain issues.

Family. Trump's wife, a model of Slovenian origin Melania Trump, repeatedly came to the center of media attention - for example, when she literally repeated excerpts from Michelle Obama’s speech at a Republican convention; besides, her half-naked photos were widely discussed and the fact that for some time she could not be completely legally in the United States (especially the piquant detail, given Trump's anti-migrant rhetoric). However, as far as can be judged, she has no particular influence on her husband. But he has his daughter Ivanka - she is the only one in Trump's entourage who can somehow convince young and progressive people to vote for him. In her speech at the congress, Ivanka, who has her own successful clothing brand, spoke vividly that her father would fight for the rights of working women and generally respect the opposite sex. Apparently, Trump's son-in-law and Jared Kushner, the owner of The New York Observer, play an even more important role — it’s generally accepted that he organized regular palace coups at Trump’s headquarters, wrote several speeches to the candidate, organized his visit to Mexico, and also Much responsible for how the campaign was conducted in social media, that is, in fact, for the main information resource of Trump.

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