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1 verified report published on February 16, 2019.
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The basic problem for Trump on February 16 was that the people around him kept ending up in federal court with thick binders and very bad news. Manafort’s sentencing memo was not just another Russia-news cycle; it was a reminder that the campaign’s inner circle had become a recurring liability in front of judges, prosecutors, and voters. The day did not produce a clean political knockout, but it did add another brick to the wall of Trump-world self-inflicted damage.
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Prosecutors asked for a prison term of roughly 19 to 24 years for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman whose financial crimes and lies kept boomeranging back into Trump’s orbit. The filing turned a long-running Trump-world embarrassment into a fresh, unmistakable reminder that the Russia-era cast was still paying through the nose in court.