Manafort Secretly Advised Trump’s 2020 Campaign

The Guardian reports:

Paul Manafort indirectly advised Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign while in home confinement as part of a seven-year sentence for offenses including tax fraud – advice he kept secret as he hoped for a presidential pardon.

“I didn’t want anything to get in the way of the president’s re-election or, importantly, a potential pardon,” Trump’s 2016 campaign manager writes in his new book.

In May 2020, as Covid-19 ravaged the prison system, Manafort was released to home confinement. He stayed in an apartment in northern Virginia. From there, he re-established contact with Trumpworld.

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The book is titled Political Prisoner: Persecuted, Prosecuted, but Not Silenced.

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— Guardian news (@guardiannews) July 29, 2022