Discussion: New Trump Campaign Manager: Manafort 'Was Asked' To Resign

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Why this unseemly dancing on his grave ? Is it that serious with Manafort ?

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Walking back the spin on the sarcasm of the stumbling over the words from the earpiece trouble caused by the loser liberal media.

Repeat daily

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I think we are only seeing the tippy-top of the Russian iceberg…

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Trump cannot stand any toxic taint not emanating from his own unhinged mouth or twitter feed. So, he was asked to resign, ok? It came from Donald. To get the dog feces taint off of Donald Trump’s Cole Hahns so that he could travel to Michigan and step into dog feces up to his neck before the day was over. It was mutual, respectfully mutual. Our New Team is off to such a splendid start.

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Hope they checked the trunk of his sweet Russian limo before he made his exit.

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The wrong person resigned. It should have been Trump.

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I would just like to know, who got to say “You’re fired!”

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Now if they can only get the candidate to resign they might have a shot.

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I was thinking “Shoot Out The Lights”, but yours works just as well… :-}

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I like how you think, Sir!

Manafort: “Well, I at least got the campaign really fired up.”

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Could Kellyanna Conway be the first intelligent woman in Trump’s vicinity for a long time ? Might get interesting - and worrying…

This may well be just the beginning. Depending on what dribbles out over the next few days and weeks…

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Again, the Trump family has been playing footsie with the Russians for a long time now. I strongly doubt they can entirely disentangle themselves from whatever trouble Manafort’s in, not with the stuff they’ve pulled about the Crimea plank, statements about Crimea, about Putin, about NATO, about the Baltic states, all that. There was an awful lot of smoke there—makes the complete absence of fire seem unlikely.

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Since Manafort was Ivanka’s idea, by n’ large, (*She’s the smert’ one, remember.), guess it’s time to return to the glory daze’ with Lewandowski, huh?
bwwahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

OR: Perhaps they could put lil’ Barron Trump in charge. "Whatta’ ya’ got to lose?" Donald? ___ And, at the least, he didn’t give a fu*king speech at the GOP Trumpalooza in Cleveland and so remains untainted.

And he was smart enough to try to hide his shame and embarrassment at being there.

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Supposedly Manafort is who put his succession in place about a month ago, foreseeing that the shit might hit the fan. He’d hoped to ride it out, but the charges in the news have been too quick. This is the best article I’ve read on all things inside Manafort’s resignation and it’s aftermath.

But Trump’s adult children and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who have a significant hand in almost every major personnel and strategic decision, were concluding that the distractions were outweighing the benefit of keeping Manafort on board, according to campaign sources.
They had pushed to elevate Conway to campaign manager, in part, because Ivanka Trump believed the campaign was too much of an all-boys club to begin with, sources said. Also, she liked the way Conway was able to manage her father.
“Kellyanne is not a campaign manager in the traditional sense of the word. She got the title as part of combat pay,” said one source involved with the discussions. “She’s the candidate manager, which considering how tough it is to manage someone like Donald — who has the temperament of a 12-year-old who always gets what he wants — is a far harder job. So far, it’s working. But it’s only been a few days.”

On the aftermath of the change, it ends with this, which is the the best news I’ve read about this whole changing of the guard:

The week of personnel upheaval has left an aura of uncertainty looming over Trump’s White House bid, even at its upper levels, said multiple sources around the campaign.
As of noon Friday, Trump’s senior-level staff had not had a conference call, said the operative who has worked with the campaign.
“It’s complete chaos,” the operative said. “No one is in charge.”

ETA: Some info.

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Leave it to HO to keep the focus on his fuckups.

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Remember how trumps said that ailes wasnt consulting trump? well it turns out that it was ailes who advised trump to dump manafort…

On Saturday, Mr. Trump raged at Mr. Manafort, holding him responsible for the article, according to people familiar with the episode. On Sunday, Mr. Trump hastily convened a meeting of paid and unpaid advisers including the pollster Kellyanne Conway; Roger Ailes, the ousted Fox News chairman; and Stephen K. Bannon, the chairman of Breitbart News, a conservative website. Mr. Manafort was present for part of the meeting.

Mr. Ailes urged Mr. Trump to reconfigure the campaign’s leadership, according to a Republican briefed on the meeting. A former Republican strategist and ad man who was friends with Mr. Trump long before his ouster, Mr. Ailes had reviewed some of the initial television commercials Mr. Manafort had overseen and told Mr. Trump in blunt terms that they were lackluster.

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