Manafort was wiretapped for two years prior to joining the Trump campaign. I suspect that Obama used this as a pretext to spy on the Trump campaign during and after Manafort left the campaign. If there is no there there, i.e., collusion with the Russians by the Trump campaign, then what does Trump have to fear?
Two comments:
First, Manafort was probably wiretapped because of the Obama backing of Ukraine turmoil, combined with the anti-Russian sentiment over Crimea.
Second, I don’t think Trump has anything to fear. My comment was about my thoughts that Manafort is probably getting more attention, and has higher costs defending himself, because of his brief stint working for Trump than if he hadn’t. So, for that reason, Trump turned out to be on net financial balance, a bad client for Manafort. Not Trump’s fault, not Manafort’s.
Mulehead’s charges or allegations will have little to nothing to do with Russia. He is on a witch hunt and if it comes down to a possible illegal tax deduction it will be heralded as Trump is a crook.
One thing I would do if I were Trump is every time Mulehead charged someone with legitimately bogus accusation I would pardon that person.