[ed.note: I wrote this post last night, prior to Paul Manafort’s resignation from the Trump campaign. His departure doesn’t change the story, if anything it tends to confirm it. But the rapidity and totality of his departure looks to me much more tied to his mounting legal trouble and efforts to protect Trump from those troubles than anything tied to the ‘pivot’ to Breitbartism or last night’s regrets speech. There’s also a big store of new information in this tour de force piece by Ken Vogel out this morning from Politico – particularly Manafort’s connection to a man named Konstantin …read more
Source: TPM
