The question remains if Manafort somehow influenced Trump in the Republican presidential candidate’s unusual, controversial support of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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For the first time since declaring his presidential run, Republican Donald Trump acknowledged that his caustic comments may have caused people pain, saying that he regrets some of what he’s said “in the heat of debate”.
Even though this appears to be the case, Conway’s denial that Breitbart’s involvement was a sign of Donald Trump’s direction towards the alt-right is still the same kind of denial that others representing the campaign have expressed in various interviews with the press.
He added that, “Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues”.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has been beating Trump in national polls fairly consistently throughout this election cycle. “And we’re really excited about that”, Conway said.
She praised Stephen Bannon, a former banker turned colourful, right-wing news executive whom Trump appointed campaign CEO, as a “brilliant tactician”. This will be your now-daily reminder that-you know what, I think this one speaks for itself.
Neither Manafort nor his deputy, Rick Gates, another Trump campaign aide, ever disclosed their work as foreign agents as required by federal law, AP reports. “But I want to beat them so decisively that their kind never rises again”.
Pollster Kellyanne Conway, who has known Trump for years and gained his trust during her brief tenure working for him, will serve as campaign manager.
Rarely do presidential campaigns wait to advertise, or undergo such leadership tumult, at such a late stage of the general election.
“They will soon be calling me MR. BREXIT”, Trump tweeted in a random message that didn’t appear to be related to anything other than his own previous support of the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union.
Mr Trump also argued that the media was distorting what he has said.
But there is no doubt that the addition of these two does, in fact, translate to a “shake up” of sorts, where Donald Trump is only focused on his nationalist supporters and away from the traditional Republican establishment who have already rejected him.
It also occurs less than one week after the New York Times published a story about a recently unearthed ledger that seemed to indicate Manafort was paid in excess of $12 million dollars by President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, a Kremlin ally who was driven from office by a 2014 coup.
He is widely regarded as the kind of confrontational, bare-knuckle brawler Trump once had in Corey Lewandowski, who was sacked from the campaign in June and replaced with Manafort, but he has no prior experience running a campaign.
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Trump frequently boasts that his rival is spending heavily while he’s put nothing into advertising, banking so far on free wall-to-wall media coverage to carry his message.
