Manafort, recruited earlier this year to spearhead Trump’s Republican convention strategy, was a controversial figure for both his ties to a number of foreign dictators and his unique political strategies.
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Paul Manafort, who stepped down as GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign chair on Friday, is the subject of increasing investigative scrutiny over his pro-Russia Ukraine ties.
“It’s time to get our country back to work and that includes an all-out effort to help young African-Americans get the good paying jobs that they deserve”, Trump said.
“I think my father didn’t want to be, you know, distracted by, you know, whatever things that, you know, Paul was dealing with”, Eric Trump told Fox News, while also praising Manafort’s work for the campaign.
Manafort, 67, has been an outspoken part of Trump’s campaign, but in the past week, had his role shifted from campaign manager to campaign chairman with the promotion of veteran pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager and Breitbart News’ Steve Bannon to campaign CEO.
“This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign”, Trump said in a statement.
Earlier in the week, the campaign added two new top officials to the campaign in a move widely seen as a demotion for Manafort. “I have done that”.
A couple of conservative political pundits are encouraged by Donald Trump’s recent “I do regret” speech.
The news followed a rally Thursday night in North Carolina in which the candidate expressed regret for some of the harsh language he has used during the campaign.
“The way they packaged this thing to take Paul Manafort out was brilliant but unfortunately it was effective, I am not quite sure that was the principal reason”. Throughout the campaign, Trump has generally refused to apologize for remarks viewed as insensitive or insulting.
When a woman thanked him for coming, rather than playing golf like the president has been doing during his New England vacation, Trump replied: “Somebody is, somebody is that shouldn’t be”.
Trump announced Manafort’s departure in a short statement emailed to reporters.
Trump is trailing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in polls nationally and in key swing states where his campaign lacks organization. Manafort was said to have been intricately involved in Lewandowski’s ouster.
Manafort denied any wrongdoing, saying he had “never received a single ‘off-the books cash payment, ‘” or worked for the governments of Ukraine or Russian Federation.
Over the past month, Trump’s lost serious ground in the polls to Hillary Clinton. “In the second shakeup to his campaign team in two months, Trump has given the upper hand to loyalists who favor his populist style”.
“The money was transferred in cash and it is impossible to trace the transactions, but I have no doubt as to the authenticity of these documents”, he said.
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As for the serious ones, at the end of July, Trump criticized the Muslim American parents of Humayun Khan, who died in Iraq in 2004, and insinuated his mother wasn’t allowed to speak while her husband spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
