I’ve not yet made the same mental connection myself but an anon today believes that the Manafort “redactions” suggest that Manafort was pimping himself to Russians that were hired by Fusion GPS and HRC to feed “dirt” to Steele ... TBD ;)
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When you need to build a large organization, some of it is going to end up there for their purposes rather than yours. But Trump is used to that. He seems well able to handle sucking in large numbers of people for needed purposes, and spitting out the ones that don’t fit his taste. In business, that was just day to day accepted.
He didn’t seem to really understand that normal life isn’t normal in politics. Everything is examined for potential negative spin and, if you don’t make perfect decisions every time, you’re not allowed to forget it and it becomes future attack points. But a lifetime of working a particular way means he’s unlikely to change for the attackers.