“Paul is a true professional and I wish him the greatest success”.
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His resignation comes amid a broader campaign staff shake-up that earlier this week saw Trump bring Stephen Bannon, a conservative media firebrand, onboard as a top campaign executive. And his firm’s lobbying activities carried outsized importance as Manafort and Gates played a formative role building out Trump’s campaign operation after pushing out an early rival, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
Manafort was hired by Trump in March as a convention manager, tasked with helping Trump secure the Republican nomination.
It was a rare admission for Trump, who has said he prefers “not to regret anything”. The friend added that’s not a knock on either of them, but just “how (Manafort) rolls”.
One GOP strategist was quoted as saying that Manafort was undone by the combination of revelations about his work in behalf of pro-Russian forces in Ukraine and the elevation of Conway and Bannon. According to the FiveThirtyEight polls-only forecast, Donald Trump has a 13.7 percent chance of winning the general election in November.
On Sunday, on the Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Eric Trump indicated that the attention a possible connection between Paul Manafort and Russian Federation was a concern to his father. “This was about Donald Trump”.
In a statement issued as he arrived in Louisiana to tour the flood-ravaged state, Trump said Manafort offered his resignation Friday morning. But Manafort lost influence with Trump because he believed that Trump had to “pivot” to be more presidential. Manafort told Yahoo News that the AP’s account was wrong. The decision suggested to some that Trump might ramp up the divisive rhetoric that has angered minorities and alienated large swaths of the electorate.
It seems that the Trump campaign is constantly being re-ordered as Trump’s support appears to be falling and it is unclear how he can mount a rebound. It’s still unclear if any money changed hands, and Manafort has denied receiving any cash payments. And, it was done not because the campaign is moving into a new phase – it moved into that “new” phase on May 3 when Trump effectively secured the Republican nomination – but because the campaign is badly flagging in the polls and some sort of change was necessary.
Paul Manafort, the chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has resigned. “You can get rid of Manafort, but that doesn’t end the odd bromance Trump has with Putin”.
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“I think my father didn’t want to be, you know, distracted by, you know, whatever things that, you know, Paul was dealing with”, he told Fox News.
