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1 verified report published on May 26, 2018.
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The throughline here is ugly and familiar: even when Trump’s allies were trying to look in control, the paper trail kept doing the talking. When a campaign chairman who had already been bounced for his foreign entanglements is still texting his way toward administration contacts, that is not discipline. It is the kind of mess that turns every denial into a future exhibit.
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Fresh court material on May 26 showed Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, continuing to work the edges of the administration through intermediaries and suggested the Russia probe was still reaching into Trump’s inner circle. It was another reminder that the people around this White House could not stop leaving a paper trail behind them.