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LaCivita has come to Tirana with a copy paste of Make America Great Again, bringing the same schemes. Which they have been launching for weeks, like plums dropped by a cleric angry with Edi Rama for not making him an ambassador...
It is a separate and very important discussion about the aspect of money and its source to pay an important American lobbyist.
However, it is not at all new that Albanian politics has turned to American strategists to build and manage electoral campaign communication.
The man who first brought the American know-how or the mood of a US-style campaign was Edi Rama. Who generally had well-known strategist names not from the American left, but from the right, namely the Republicans.
In 2007, Rama had as his campaign advisor President George W. Bush's right-hand man, Ed Gillespie, who was a kind of Republican guru in Washington.
Meanwhile, Sali Berisha's DP has had strategists from across the ocean several times. In the 2005 campaign, it agreed to the famous BG&R, which came with the mediation of the superpower, Damir Fazlic.
Meanwhile, another company of campaign strategists that had an impact on Sali Berisha's campaign was Podesta, where his guru Tony Podesta, Bill and Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, was its brain.
Podesta was the company that brought Sali Berisha two big victories in 2009, where he did the PR for a party that collapsed after Gërdec, a force from a NATO member country, and in 2011 when Basha took over the Tirana municipality. A victory that was rigged at the CEC table by Arben Ristani, but it was Podesta who hid and softened this scandalous manipulation.
After the campaigns ended, Berisha did not spare attacks on Democrats and Hillary Clinton, but also on the Democratic lobbying group in 2017, to offer sympathy to Republicans.
It is known that in 2017, according to the prosecution's investigations, the DP lobbied with Nick Muzin, a man close to Donald Trump, to hold meetings and also lobby for the aforementioned tent.
The results of that lobbying are now known, where money with clear Russian connections was used, and about which there have been articles and investigations, which, despite objections, are irrefutable facts.
But even though he approached the White House through Nick Musin, the State Department sent a senior official to Tirana in 2017 who gave Berisha the first serious threat from Washington.
Meanwhile, even in the current campaign, Sali Berisha has played with great poise, signing Chris LaCivita.
The man who was a key figure in Trump's electoral campaign, mainly with the heavyweight sports media, who has a large audience in what is called "Deep America."
LaCivita has come to Tirana with a copy paste of Make America Great Again, bringing the same schemes. Which they have been starting for weeks, like the plums that came out of the cleric angry with Edi Rama for not making him ambassador, who said that 100 thousand Palestinians will come to Albania and buy 20 thousand empty apartments in Tirana.
Or the publications of the Iranian secret services' file when payrolls were stolen, revealing the 2019 payroll lists of NGOs that have been speculated to be USAID lists.
Smoke-filled narratives that have nothing to do with the campaign and the alternative of an opposition. Especially when there is someone like Sali Berisha at the helm who is on trial for corruption.
It's no wonder that now, as in 2017, Trump's State Department brought in a bulldozer like Howt Brian Yee to deliver the famous ultimatum that made him come out of hiding. And then he brought Ambassador Yuri Kim to Tirana. We have to wait.
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