But further damage to the Trump campaign came Friday when lawmaker Sergiy Leshchenko said that Manafort also worked with a Washington lobbying group Podesta that promoted the Regions Party and Yanukovych’s image in the United States. The 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.
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While it is unusual to make major organization changes this late in a campaign, Haynes said it is not too late for a race against a “flawed candidate” like Hillary Clinton when voters want change. A new campaign manager and executive were named earlier this week.
It also follows reports of questionable activities by Manafort’s firm connected with Ukraine. The billionaire called Manafort “a true professional”.
In contrast, “Donald Trump’s America is secure”, it says. “And Donald Trump has made it very clear who it is”.
While he was initially hired in March, Manafort took on a greater role when Trump’s then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was sacked in June. That decision by Trump seemed to be an embrace of Manafort’s strategy.
Manafort’s role with the campaign began in March, when he was first hired by Trump as a “convention manager” to lead the charge corralling delegates and to tackle the possibility of a contested convention later in the summer. Bannon is not quitting the conservative outlet. Manafort’s resignation – which also likely consolidates Conway’s power – took some of his fellow staffers by surprise, because they had expected him to stay on as an advisor despite his downward bump in position.
Manafort’s resignation appears to suggest confusion within the Trump camp, as just two days ago Manafort himself sent a memo to all staffers insisting that he would remain in charge of “providing the big-picture and long-range campaign vision”.
Ukrainian journalist and member of parliament Serhiy Leshchenko holds pages showing allegedly signings of payments to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort from an illegal shadow accounting book of the party of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych during a press conference in Kiev on August 19, 2016.
HollywoodLifers, are you shocked that Manafort has resigned? Campaign sources said that Trump had been unhappy with Manafort for a variety of reasons.
“I have known Steve and Kellyanne both for many years”, said Trump in a statement. “Voters know if you’re comfortable in your own skin”. So much for a Friday news dump.
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“Well, look it’s obviously a hard thing for anybody when they change jobs and have a position that they’ve been so invested in for a long time and really put their heart and soul into something, to not be part of it, particularly when you’re this close”, Lewandowski told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on “At This Hour”. While he did not specify which remarks he regretted, he added, “But one thing I can promise you is this: I will always tell the truth”.
