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I’m hearing rumblings from Republican sources that Manafort may soon be gone from the Trump campaign.
Who might come in to the campaign instead? GOP imp-for-hire Roger Stone.
Mind you, this is all rumor at this point, but I’m told Republican operatives are “furiously texting” amongst themselves about whether Manafort is imminently out, and whether Stone is coming back. (Stone was part of Trump’s campaign early on, then left.)
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
When I asked whether Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was going to come back, the sources I talked to said there “wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell.” Trumps’ kids hate Corey, I was told. And there was no way they’d let him back in to the fold.
I’ve been wondering myself the past few days if Manafort’s days were numbered. There have been stories about Manafort allegedly being incredibly frustrated with Trump. Particularly telling was Manafort’s recent quote about how all of the campaign messaging is Trump’s call. It struck me that Manafort was doing a bit of the blame-game — the reason for the recent snafus isn’t me, it’s Trump. Which seemed an odd thing for a campaign manager to do, unless he thought he might be on the way out.
Roger Stone.
As for Stone — where to begin? Roger Stone is an old-time DC political operative, who can be vicious vicious vicious. It was Stone who a few days ago shared the rumors that U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan might have been a secret terrorist sleeper cell of one (he wasn’t). So I’m not sure if Stone would do anything other than reinforce Trump’s worst tendencies — to keep talking about the crazy stuff.
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