Used,Chewed and Spit out by the Same man he made Manafort officially out in the cold

Paul Manafort arrives in court

Mr Trump announced he was running for president in June 2015 and was immediately declared a rank outsider. But, with a series of controversial comments and promises winning him much press attention, the chance he could be elected became increasingly possible.

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Initially, the president proudly pledged he was self-funding his campaign so wouldn’t need the kind of political machinery most of his predecessors had required. But, by early 2016, he had started to spend considerable amounts of money, with millions of dollars in donations coming in.

As a result of his early success in the primaries in February 2016, the Trump campaign stepped up its activities.

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Manafort joined Mr Trump’s campaign as the primaries got under way, after approaching him through a mutual friend. He had previous experience as an adviser to the campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush and had also worked as an international lobbyist and consultant.

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At first, his task was to persuade presidential delegates to back his boss, but within months, he had been placed above Mr Lewandowski into the campaign chairman role.

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But within weeks, Manafort was sidelined and then sacked when it emerged he had received secret payments as a result of his links to pro-Russian Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych.

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Manafort was subject to two trials: one in Virginia and another in Washington DC. In Virginia, he was convicted of eight counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding foreign accounts. In DC, he entered a guilty plea deal to charges of conspiring to defraud the US and witness tampering. On Wednesday, he was sentenced to an additional three-and-a-half years in prison for two conspiracy charges.

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