Manafort

Here's Where We've Met Him Before-- And What It Tells Us About The Swamp-by Skip KaltenheuserBirds of a feather. Ever notice the gravitational pull that brings sleaze together in the legal world, how those of similar ilk find each other?

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(ANTIMEDIA) “Paul Manafort” is a name we haven’t heard in awhile, but only a few months ago, he was one of the most powerful political operatives in the nation. Manafort has built his career as a Republican strategist over several decades. Washington D.C. is full of power-hungry operatives like the 67-year-old, and after putting in his time as a lobbyist, he was finally on the top of the game and running public relations for the Trump campaign.

Yesterday James Fallows wrote that Señor Trumpanzee's credibility crisis is now front-and-center. He worries about the inevitability of the moment a crisis causes Trump to say "Trust me," and no one can and that's why so many veteran officials have warned about his habit of incessantly telling instantly disprovable lies. "If an administration will lie about facts where the contradictory evidence is in plain sight, how can we possibly believe them on anything else?