Section: POLITICO – U.S. Edition (USA)
Inside the fall of Paul Manafort
Earlier this month, Paul Manafort met with Donald Trump and suggested that they put in place a succession plan for the upper ranks of the Republican nominee’s flailing presidential campaign, according to three campaign sources with direct knowledge of the events that led to Manafort’s resignation on Friday morning as campaign...
Paul Manafort resigns from Trump campaign
Donald Trump’s campaign is still trembling from its shakeup this week.Trump on Friday announced that campaign chairman Paul Manafort had resigned, two days after the Republican nominee put in place a new leadership structure that appeared to minimize Manafort’s role.Manafort had increasingly come under fire for his past lobbying work...
GOP insiders: Trump’s overhaul won’t succeed
Donald Trump says this week’s dramatic campaign overhaul will put his presidential bid on the right path, but GOP leaders in key battleground states aren’t buying it.Fewer than a third of Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of activists, strategists and operatives in 11 key battleground states — believe Trump’s...
Manafort’s man in Kiev
In an effort to collect previously undisclosed millions of dollars he’s owed by an oligarch-backed Ukrainian political party, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been relying on a trusted protégé whose links to Russia and its Ukrainian allies have prompted concerns among Manafort associates, according to people who...
Trump’s new campaign manager vows to let Trump be Trump
The woman in charge of running Donald Trump’s campaign wants to let Trump be Trump, but in a more disciplined way.Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster and longtime Trump associate who was elevated to be his campaign manager this week, indicated Thursday in separate television interviews that under her guidance, the campaign will be more...
Trump‘s Shady Fixer
So much for the old accusation that the Republican Party has a “Cold War mentality.” Or if it still does, it has switched sides.The 2016 presidential campaign continues to play out like a Christopher Buckley novel gone completely off the rails, perhaps most implausibly in Paul Manafort’s role in the Russia-friendly Donald Trump...
Is Putin playing Trump like he did Berlusconi?
In January 2009, the U.S. ambassador in Rome cabled Washington to raise an alarm. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the diplomat wrote, had cultivated a troubling relationship with the country’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. “Berlusconi admires Putin’s macho, decisive, and authoritarian governing style, which the Italian PM...
Clinton campaign: Bring on Breitbart
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager on Wednesday excoriated Donald Trump’s latest campaign hires — an unusually aggressive attack on staffers from a campaign that has purposefully retreated into the background in recent weeks as its rival has self-immolated.Hours after Trump announced that Steve Bannon, a top executive at the...
Democrats’ new warning: Leaks could include Russian lies
Democratic leaders are putting out a warning that could help inoculate Hillary Clinton against an October cyber surprise: Any future mass leaks of embarrassing party emails might contain fake information inserted by Russian hackers.House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is among those sounding that alarm, echoing security experts who say Russian...
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...
