Capping off a period of turmoil for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, the GOP candidate’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has resigned.
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“I’ve known him since we were in college, he’s a first-class person, he’s an unbelievable individual and he has been the lead architect in trying to seamlessly put together the institutional side of this campaign”, Barrack said in an interview.
The campaign pulled another unexpected move by accepting the resignation of campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Friday morning (Aug. 19). “He helped us with the convention [and] he did a great job with the delegates”.
Donald Trump’s campaign chair Paul Manafort resigned Friday morning.
Just hours before Trump landed in Baton Rouge, his son Eric criticised Obama for not travelling to Louisiana in an interview with Fox News, saying that the president “can’t stop a round of golf to go check in on the victims of this terrible tragedy”.
The emails obtained by AP were sent by Gates to Vin Weber, the head of Mercury’s Washington office, and to Michael McSherry, a Mercury lobbyist who Politico reported was tapped earlier this month for a senior position in Trump’s campaign.
Bannon’s hiring, along with the promotion of pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager, were both seen as demotions for Manafort, who has come under heavy criticism of late for alleged ties to pro-Russian elements in Ukraine.
Manafort had presided over a period in which Trump had fallen behind in opinion poll numbers in the race against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for the November 8 election. I really like ‘humble Trump.’ That’s what I saw last night.
Manafort had faced questions about his ties to the now-disgraced Russian-backed former president of Ukraine after The New York Times publicized documents related to a government corruption investigation.
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.
The billionaire businessman also said Democrats had let down black voters and vowed “If African-American voters give Donald Trump a chance by giving me their vote”, he said, “the result for them will be fantastic”.
The most damaging for Trump was his attack on a Gold Star family — who lost their son, Army Captain Humayun Khan, while he served in Iraq – for speaking out against him at the Democratic National Convention.
Lewandowski, who was sacked by Trump in June, drew a puzzling parallel to make his point, arguing that in 2004, John Kerry was also making staff changes as the election approached.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, said ahead of Trump’s visit that he wouldn’t be involved, adding that Trump is welcome, “but not for a photo-op”.
Most polls show Trump trailing Clinton significantly among black voters.
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So it’s odd that in Trump’s first speech in the middle of this transition, in Charlotte, he issued an apology – albeit a very vague one – for words he has used in the past that “may have caused personal pain”. Trump hired him in March to help the campaign compete with the well-oiled political machine of Sen. “One thing I don’t think Trump will tolerate is the focus being on someone else rather than himself”.
