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Trump campaign circles the wagons around Manafort


Donald Trump’s campaign defended its embattled chairman, Paul Manafort, on Tuesday, pushing back against reports that the former consultant had received secret cash payments from a deposed Ukrainian leader with close ties to the Kremlin — while being careful to distance Manafort from any possible wrongdoing by the candidate himself.Manafort’s connections to Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russia former president of Ukraine, won’t hurt Trump’s campaign, vice presidential candidate Mike Pence said Tuesday, because “he’s not running for president.”“I think Paul Manafort has dismissed that as completely false and inaccurate and I accept him at his word,” Pence said in an interview …read more

Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition

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