What We’re FollowingNo Man Is a Fortress: Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, stepped down today following a scandal over his involvement with a pro-Russian political regime in Ukraine. Manafort, a 40-year campaign veteran, was once expected to make Trump’s operation more professional; now, it’s up to Trump himself, along with his new campaign chiefs Stephen Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, to avoid crashing and burning amid poor polling. Yet Trump’s hiring of Breitbart News producer Bannon and former Fox News head Roger Ailes suggests a different long-term plan: Could a Trump News Channel be in the works?A Heated Debate Over …read more
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