The Manafort-Gates Indictment Kept Eating Trump’s Week
The special counsel’s indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates was still dominating Trump-world on November 2, 2017, and the problem was not just the charges themselves. The case had turned a former campaign chairman into a public symbol of the administration’s Russia-era rot, with allegations of hidden foreign lobbying, money laundering, and tax fraud hanging over the president’s orbit. The political damage was compounded by the fact that the indictment had already forced the White House back onto defense, where it had no clean answer other than denial and distance. On a day when the administration badly needed control of the narrative, t…
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The Manafort-Gates Indictment Kept Eating Trump’s Week
The special counsel’s indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates was still dominating Trump-world on November 2, 2017, and the problem was not just the charges themselves. The case had turned a former campaign chairman into a public symbol of the administration’s Russia-era rot, with allegations of hidden foreign lobbying, money laundering, and tax fraud hanging over the president’s orbit. The political damage was compounded by the fact that the indictment had already forced the White House bac…
The special counsel’s indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates was still dominating Trump-world on November 2, 2017, and the problem was not just the charges themselves. The case had turned a former campaign chairman into a public symbol of the administration’s Russia-era rot, with allegations of hidden foreign lobbying, money laundering, and tax fraud hanging over the president’s orbit. The political damage was c…
The special counsel’s first major public move against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates had turned into the defining Trump-world story of the day, and the indictment was a brutal reminder that the 2016 campaign’s Russia-adjacent baggage was now a live criminal case. The filing accused the pair of years of opaque foreign lobbying and financial maneuvering, and even though the underlying conduct predated the campaign, the …
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