Manafort was in charge of organizing the convention. Lewandowski was the campaign manager.
Manafort was hired when Cruz was going around stealing delegates. In his first interview he said that Cruz was about to hit a “rough patch”. Two weeks later Cruz suspended his campaign.
Trump is getting ready to move in another direction, election mode, he will be out of ‘primary’ mode at convention time...
Cory and Trump are great friends and always will be, but now it's time to turn the reins to a ‘professional’ which Cory is to a degree, but Manafort is like a ‘god father’ person, if you have watched his eyes when he's being interviewed you will see what I'm saying...
The media twits will milk this for all it's worth, but don't forget, Trump, Cory, Hope, Dan, Paul, Christie and Dr. Carson have been friends for years and will remain so...
Trump has a crucial additional problem of the internal GOP saboteurs starting with Paul Ryan. Trump/Manafort have got to neutralize those GOP “leaders” who are actively undermining the campaign and working to elect Hillary Clinton.