Nothing in the Channel 4 report directly implicates the Trump campaign. What the story brings to mind more than anything is the track record of Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman. In early 2016, Trump’s campaign was hobbled by his staunch opposition to the Republican establishment and, more broadly, by skepticism about his chances. The Trump campaign looped in a number of peripheral characters in part because many of the better-known and more experienced Republican consultants and advisers were allied with other campaigns or unwilling to join his insurgency. (Two months after the Trump campaign hired Cambridge, Manafort was out, replaced with Bannon.)

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2018 21:31 UTC