Apparently he was brought in for a limited period of time to deal with one specific issue. He made his reputation as a political guru back in 1976 when he worked for Gerald Ford. The 1976 election was the last time one of the major parties did not have a nominee established before the convention, and the 2016 GOP campaign was looking like it could play out the same way. Manafort was brought in for his expertise in dealing with a potential brokered convention, and he was let go after the convention when Trump had the nomination secured.
he was actually working to undermine the Trump campaign when he was hired as the campaign manager.
Paul Manafort was fired from the Trump Campaign in the middle of August, 2016.
That would be a year and two months ago.
He volunteered
As I recall Manafort worked for no pay
At the time Trumps campaign was under assault by the RNC, Cruz and other GOPe candidates seeking to turn, steal, disqualify or otherwise nullify the results of the state primaries and the compilation of delegate votes to secure Trumps nomination
Manafort came in as an expert on legal process, a pro at the game , and he beat them and Trump got the nomination he had EARNED
Quite a few Freepers saw Manafort then as a hero.
After Trump was nominated, Manafort’s job was done and he left the campaign. Deep State was starting to rumble because Manafort was not a player in the neocon “ civil war” drums they were beating in Ukraine. He was being hired to lobby for Russia’s interests.
Which is not illegal.
And Podesta was hired for the same.
Hillary helped Donald trump in the beginning because she thought he was the ideal person to run against. how do you think Trump got on Saturday night live. the press did not go after hi m when he started in fact asked him softball questions. it was not tell Hillary’s supporter’s realized that what trump was saying was resonating that the press turned on trump.
Hillary helped Donald trump in the beginning because she thought he was the ideal person to run against. how do you think Trump got on Saturday night live. the press did not go after hi m when he started in fact asked him softball questions. it was not tell Hillary’s supporter’s realized that what trump was saying was resonating that the press turned on trump.
He was hired, or whatever, to assist with the Republican convention because they thought it would be brokered. He stayed on when Trump became the nominee. Notice, be was one of the first fired from Trump’s staff. Manafort was an anti Trump spy, probably at the behest of other NeverTrumpers.
He worked for other candidates: Ford, Reagan, George HW Bush, and Dole.