{"id":7912,"date":"2016-07-01T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2016-07-01T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:05:26","slug":"dont-ignore-the-man-behind-the-curtain-paul-manafort-donald-trumps-campaign-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/dont-ignore-the-man-behind-the-curtain-paul-manafort-donald-trumps-campaign-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t ignore the man behind the curtain: Paul Manafort, Donald Trump\u2019s campaign manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wapo.st\/29bDjaU\">The hypocrisy at the heart of Trump\u2019s campaign<\/a> By Dana Milbank, Opinion writer<\/p>\n<p>This is the hypocrisy at the heart of the Trump campaign, now under Manafort\u2019s undisputed control. Manafort\u2019s inspiration, which Trump has embraced, is to portray Clinton as the embodiment of the establishment. But Manafort (not unlike Trump) has been the voice of the wealthy and the well-connected for four decades, building a fortune by making common cause with the world\u2019s most avaricious. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"courtesy-of-the-resizer zoom-in\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_480w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2016\/07\/01\/Editorial-Opinion\/Images\/257926944_1-41461620410-1222.jpg?uuid=dW9t4j-KEeaAvNBnEf0hJQ\" data-raw-src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rw\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2016\/07\/01\/Editorial-Opinion\/Images\/257926944_1-41461620410-1222.jpg?uuid=dW9t4j-KEeaAvNBnEf0hJQ\" data-low-res-src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_480w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2016\/07\/01\/Editorial-Opinion\/Images\/257926944_1-41461620410-1222.jpg?uuid=dW9t4j-KEeaAvNBnEf0hJQ\" data-hi-res-src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_1484w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2016\/07\/01\/Editorial-Opinion\/Images\/257926944_1-41461620410-1222.jpg?uuid=dW9t4j-KEeaAvNBnEf0hJQ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Manafort\u2019s right to represent dictators and thugs and regimes that torture. He has, for decades, helped autocrats who battle human rights and democracy. But now this man, who made his fortune helping the rich and powerful get more so, is setting up a general-election campaign that portrays Trump as a man of the people and Clinton as the captive of special interests. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Manafort has been a paragon of the Washington Republican establishment for two generations, working on Gerald Ford\u2019s reelection in 1976 before helping Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole. [mjh: So much for Trump being the anti-Establishment candidate his fans believe he is.] &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Manafort is steeped in the racial politics Trump has exploited. As Franklin Foer writes for Slate, Manafort ran Reagan\u2019s Southern operation in 1980; the candidate kicked off his general-election campaign outside Philadelphia, Miss., scene of the murder of civil rights activists in 1964. Manafort later became a business partner of Lee Atwater, who gained fame for Bush\u2019s Willie Horton campaign in 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hypocrisy at the heart of Trump\u2019s campaign By Dana Milbank, Opinion writer This is the hypocrisy at the heart of the Trump campaign, now under Manafort\u2019s undisputed control. Manafort\u2019s inspiration, which Trump has embraced, is to portray Clinton as the embodiment of the establishment. But Manafort (not unlike Trump) has been the voice of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/dont-ignore-the-man-behind-the-curtain-paul-manafort-donald-trumps-campaign-manager\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t ignore the man behind the curtain: Paul Manafort, Donald Trump\u2019s campaign manager<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}