“Manafort and Trump despised each other...”
Really? I hadn’t heard that before. I guess that was a reason why Manafort got removed as chair of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Interesting.
According to Corey Lewandowski Trump fired Manafort because of the dirty cash and Manafort’s secret lobbying for Yanukovich.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/04/paul-manafort-and-me-216004
“I’ve got a crook running my campaign,” Trump said when he read it.
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Trump told Bannon to fire Manafort right away. Steve argued that firing his campaign chairman would cause a shitstorm of bad press. Instead, he argued that Trump should take away his authority and give him a new title, which is what happened.
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The kill shot for Paul came on Thursday August 18, when Trump was about to go onstage at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. A friend showed him a printout of an AP story written by Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day. Based on emails that the AP had obtained, the story described Manafort running “a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor of the country’s pro-Russian government.” It also said that Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, had “never disclosed their work as foreign agents as required under federal law.”
“Tell Jared to fire him,” Trump said.
I listen to the Mark Simone Show on iHeart radio. Mark has been friends with President Trump for 30 years and made the claim. Simone is also quite friendly with Ivana and he asked her what she thought of the Russian prostitute story.
Ivana laughed and said, “It never happened. The Donald is much too much of a ‘germ-a-phobe’ to ever be involved in anything like that.”