One-time 2016 Trump campaign chairman and convicted felon Paul Manafort will no longer have a part in planning the 2024 Republican National Convention, the Washington Post reports, removing from the show’s management one of the Kremlin’s highest-paid campaign consultants.
Saying he would work for free as he did for the Trump campaign in 2016, when he handed private campaign polling data over to his Russian handlers, Manafort was again embraced by Team Trump. Again: Team Trump invited Manafort to rejoin their political arm after fraud convictions and getting caught working with the Russian government. Manafort left the 2016 campaign after it was revealed he received more than $12 million from a Russian-backed Ukrainian political party in the years before.
This time, Manafort was found by the Liberal Media (actually the WaPo, available through the gift link) to be working to launch a start-up Netflix-style media company in China which has been endorsed by the Chinese government. So while in 2016, Manafort was making his money from Russia, this year, he’s being subsidized by China. You’d think the Trump camp would have vetted him more closely after his side gigs in 2016, huh?