This your most idiotic defense of Trump ever, it is the authorities fault that Trump associates with and hires known criminals, does this really make sense to you? Seriously?
Keep in mind, who was managing the campaign first? Corey freaking lerwindowski, a nobody’s nobody. There were 16 other candidates, well established and well funded. In comparison, trump was operating on a shoe string budget, not to mention the fact nobody took him seriously, and the most respected people were already snatched up long ago. He gets recommended a guy through someone he trusts, it’s not like at the time PM had a big public red flag. And you can’t play the trump knows nothing, but must know everything card. Trump is a rank newbie to real politics, and I don’t mean talking shit on Fox News, or fighting with nyc to get a tax break. I’m talking the deep dirty shit. And if PM’s crimes were so blatant and well known, he should have been in jail, rather than working alongside the brother of Hillary’s campaign manager.
Now if you want to argue that’s why you don’t hire a rookie, I can’t argue that.
“How Manafort's relationship with Trump developed – and how he rose through the ranks of the campaign – could be a part of upcoming Senate hearings on possible coordination between members of Trump's campaign and the Kremlin.
The two men first connected through a mutual friend, real estate investor Thomas Barrack, through whom Manafort sent his first memos to Trump, according to the Times. Barrack also delivered to Trump a letter describing Manafort as “the most experienced and lethal of managers," the report said.
Also in that letter, Barrack made Manafort's even more appealing to Trump, writing that “he would do this in an unpaid capacity.”
A key focus of Manafort's early communications with Trump was his international work, as well as his status as a Washington outsider, isolated from the politics and influence of the nation's capital.
“I have managed Presidential campaigns around the world," Manafort wrote. “I have had no client relationships dealing with Washington since around 2005. I have avoided the political establishment in Washington since 2005.”
Before reaching Trump himself, Manafort's pitch was passed to the real estate mogul's elder daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, both of whom now work in Trump's White House.
In March of 2016, Manafort had been hired by the Trump campaign to organize its delegate operations at the Republican National Convention. By June, the operative had taken over as Trump's campaign manager – a post he held only briefly until August.”
