Ukraine appoints prosecutor who exposed Manafort case

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has appointed a man who exposed under-the-table payments to U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a senior prosecutor.
Analysts say the appointment Tuesday of Viktor Trepak as deputy national prosecutor this week is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s attempt to play both sides of the American political divide.
Trump pressed Zelenskiy in a July phone call to investigate Democratic political rivals. The call he