Before working with Trump, Manafort had been Yanukovych's election strategist. There was something quite Trump-ish about his former client, not least his $75 million palace - with its golden chandeliers and Fabergé eggs and personalized cognac bottles {the label had a little photograph of Yanukovych}, his shiny grand pianos and sweeping gold-trimmed staircases. And then there was his private ostrich zoo. The palace had been constructed in secret, and had come as a huge surprise to the Ukrainian people, given that Yanukovych spent much of his career apparently earning a civil servant's salary of $24,000 a year. Most Ukrainians knew of its existence only after Yanukovych was ousted from office in 2014 and fled to Russia. In
( Jon Ronson )
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