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Steve Bannon, who chaired the Trump presidential campaign in its final, tumultuous months, used to refer to the crew of staff, advisers, aides, and hangers-on as the “island of misfit toys.†Karl Rove, no stranger to successful White House campaigns, once better described them to me as “walking disasters.â€Two of those walking disasters, the world learned Tuesday, will soon be heading off to prison. One is Paul Manafort, who preceded Bannon as chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign and helped “professionalize†the operation. A longtime GOP operative, Manafort had mostly left domestic politics for the more lucrative business of advising foreign political campaigns. It was this career shift that led Manafort down the road that ends with a possible maximum prison sentence of 80 years . . .. . . The other of Trump’s associates heading to the clink is Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime lawyer, close adviser, and “fixer†who Tuesday pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts in federal court and agreed to some jail time . . .. . . Far from “good men†and “the best people,†Trump seems to have a penchant for surrounding himself with problematic aides and advisers who are willing to lie and cheat on his behalf. What does it say about the president, who keeps calling the investigations a “witch hunt,†that he keeps finding himself in the company of witches?
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