“They’re terrific people, they’re winners, they’re champs, and we need to win it”, Trump said of the two, according to the Associated Press.
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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”.
The departure also comes as Manafort is defending himself from investigations into his extensive lobbying history overseas, particularly in the Ukraine, where he represented pro-Russian interests. Manafort wound up running the campaign, but took criticism over continuing Republican opposition to Trump and complaints about the candidate’s undisicplined style and repeated attacks on GOP critics. The former campaign chairman had past business dealings that were under extreme scrutiny.
The campaign shake-up, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes as polls show Trump trailing Clinton nationally and in key battleground states following a hard campaign stretch that saw him insulting the Muslim parents of a U.S. Army soldier who died in Iraq and temporarily refraining from endorsing Ryan in his Wisconsin primary race. Again, non-partisan fact checkers have found that Trump lies between 70% and 91% of the time, which means that the odds are that his claims of honesty are lies. Some 23 percent would not side with either candidate.
KEILAR: You have been a big defender of Donald Trump in your role at the RNC, but you’re also seen as someone with a long history in the Republican establishment and Bannon is someone who is the executive chairman of Breitbart News.
The billionaire real estate mogul is bringing in Stephen Bannon of Breitbart News as chief executive officer and promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager.
Trump just two months ago fired his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski after weeks of internal fighting between Lewandowski and Manafort, who was initially brought on to oversee Trump’s efforts to stave off the possibility of a contested convention.
The longtime Republican operative was considered a guiding hand in steering Mr Trump toward a more conventional campaign as opposed to the anti-establishment brand of politics that made his primary campaign successful.
A source close to the campaign told NPR that Trump was likely seeking support from “someone who doesn’t want to change him, but just wants to make him a better bulldozer operator”. Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau said, however, that it can not prove that Manafort actually received the money because other people including a prominent Party of the Regions deputy signed for him in those entries.
Manafort, in a statement earlier this week, has denied any wrongdoing. Manafort resigned in wake of campaign shakeup and revelations about Ukraine work. Russian officials have rejected that accusation.
“Too many cooks in the kitchen”, Feehery said.
Although the hiring of Bannon was taken as a signal that Trump would not hold back in his aggressive, unorthodox campaign manner, Trump offered rare words of regret on Thursday for causing offense with his take-no-prisoners style.
Reading from a teleprompter, he told supporters in North Carolina that he had sometimes misspoken.
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau said it can not prove Manafort actually received the money.
The FBI, Justice Department and Manafort declined to comment.
The final stretch of the protracted campaign traditionally starts after Labor Day, which falls on September 5 this year.
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“He has shaped the company into Trump’s personal Pravda, to the extent that he abandoned and undercut his own reporter”, Shapiro said in a statement at the time.
