Manafort’s Web Ensnares NeverTrumpers, Democrats—Everyone
By Steven J. Allen| August 20th, 2018Paul Manafort was exactly what Donald Trump’s presidential campaign needed—and what it didn’t.
At the end of March 2016, Trump was in trouble. He had won the most delegates, but not a majority, and many of the Trump delegates, chosen under arcane rules, actually supported other candidates. Trump might still be denied the nomination. Even if he won, the party convention likely would be a disaster. No one in the campaign knew how to run a Republican National Convention.
Veteran operatives showed little interest in working for the sure-loser Trump—except for Manafort, a master of the intricate details of a political convention, who offered to work for free.
He would be gone by mid-August. By then, his involvement in the campaign launched a thousand conspiracy theories.
Manafort began his political career in 1976 as a delegate hunter for President Gerald Ford. At the Republican National Convention, Ford’s forces, including Manafort, narrowly defeated a conservative/populist challenge from Ronald Reagan.
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