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New court filing alleging lies to the special counsel comes just ahead of report that Trump’s campaign manager met with Julian Assange in 2016. But there are several possible explanations.

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Trump's former campaign manager pleads guilty to two different conspiracy counts before his second trial.

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After Manafort and Cohen, the Democrats are struggling not to overreach.

Trump's defense of Manafort betrays his campaign's promise to crack down on lobbyists.

The Republican Party will have to answer for Trump, Manafort, and Cohen.

It’s what happens when loyalty—to a party or president—trumps everything else.

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With Cohen and Manafort going to jail, the president could choose to burn the system down.

With the Cohen-Manafort one-two punch, Trump’s choices come back to haunt him in a big way.

Trump's former campaign adviser found guilty of tax fraud, bank fraud, and conspiring to hide foreign bank accounts.

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When potential clients crossed the threshold into his dark and paneled office not far from the White House, Clark Clifford would give them a little speech. Yes, he told them, he could offer them his “extensive knowledge of how to deal with the government on your problems.” And certainly he could…

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Fresh court filings and expert insight illuminate Paul Manafort’s rug money.

The first of a pair of Paul Manafort trials began this week in a courthouse in Virginia. The international lobbyist and onetime head of the Trump presidential campaign is charged with parking millions in cash offshore to evade taxes and otherwise launder his earnings. These are common enough…

The special counsl uncovered evidence that Manafort had attempted to tamper with potential witnesses.

Trump former campaign manager attempted to tamper with witnesses, according to a new court filing.

His legal arguments are tenuous, but they may be enough to convince the president.

The special counsel is everything we want in a public servant, but Americans need to see a conclusion.

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The president will speak from the White House Tuesday afternoon to announce a decision that will affect the future of the Iran nuclear deal.

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As special counsel Robert Mueller prepares for a potential climactic interview with President Trump, his team continues to bore into potential links between Russian intelligence and Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. In new court documents filed Wednesday, Mueller is asserting the…

Russia continues to face international backlash following the assassination of a former spy and his daughter in the United Kingdom earlier this month. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that more than 25 countries have now expelled Russian intelligence agents "hiding under diplomatic cover" since…

Russia continues to face international backlash following the attempted assassination of a former spy and his daughter in the United Kingdom earlier this month.* Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that more than 25 countries have now expelled Russian intelligence agents "hiding under diplomatic…

Say what you will about Paul Manafort (and you can say a lot): He’s no quitter. Pundits proclaimed Manafort’s goose cooked last week after his former business partner and co-defendant Richard Gates fessed up to the battery of crimes of which special counsel Robert Mueller has accused them,…

Last week’s latest indictments by special counsel Robert Mueller added dozens of new counts to the charges already leveled against former Trump campaign manager, lobbyist Paul Manafort and his disloyal deputy Rick Gates, who pleaded guilty late last week. Manafort, arraigned Wednesday morning,…

Michael Warren is on vacation this week, and Andrew Egger is filling in for him on White House Watch. Michael will be back in the saddle on March 12.

Update, 9:36 p.m.: Manafort attorney Jason Maloni emails in the following statement "on behalf of Paul Manafort:

Four days after his surprise indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for conspiracy against the United States, special counsel Robert Mueller revealed a new plea deal Tuesday, with Russia-connected lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan. Mueller charges that Van Der Zwaan lied to FBI…

Michael Wolff couldn’t have asked for better publicity. His new book, Fire and Fury, doesn’t officially come out until January 9, but its salacious revelations about the infighting within the Trump campaign, transition, and administration dominated the political news cycle Wednesday, including the…

Michael Wolff couldn’t have asked for better publicity. His new book, Fire and Fury, doesn’t officially come out until January 9, but its salacious revelations about the infighting within the Trump campaign, transition, and administration dominated the political news cycle Wednesday, including the…

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors filed evidence late Friday afternoon to demonstrate that Paul Manafort violated a court-mandated gag order by contributing to an op-ed defending himself in a Ukrainian newspaper.

Special counsel Robert Mueller in mid-October issued a subpoena against the Trump campaign to obtain Russia-related documents from over a dozen campaign officials, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

One of the more puzzling aspects of Paul Manafort's indictment for conspiracy, money laundering and other charges was the line items detailing the he epic sums he reported spending from Cyprus-based accounts on antique rugs in Northern Virginia. There's really no reasonable way, THE WEEKLY STANDARD…

The judge overseeing the federal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Wednesday issued a gag order to prevent lawyers, defendants, and witnesses from making public statements that could prejudice the jury.

Manafort, Paul Manafort. As folks comb through the Manafort papers, some interesting things are popping up. Like the fact the Manafort had three valid U.S. passports. Now, cyber security experts are hinting that Manafort's password for file-sharing sites was "bond007."

Washington is nothing if not opportunistic. Take the activist group American Family Voices (please!). It is a classic D.C. sort of organization, what’s known in the trade as “astroturf,” which is to say, phony grassroots. It was among the political players this week trying to make the most of the…

I guess it’s not altogether surprising, given that the most famous political figure to emerge from Rhode Island in modern political history was the notoriously corrupt (and violent) Buddy Cianci, the long-time mayor of the city that I grew up in. But as a member in good standing of the Rhode Island…

The White House is walking a tightrope in its attempt to distance the president and his campaign from Monday’s big developments in the special counsel investigation into Russian interference. “Today's announcement has nothing to do with the president, has nothing to do with the president's campaign…

Special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s indictments of Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and George Papadopoulos turned the news cycle on its head Monday, with some trumpeting the news as the latest smoking gun for Russian collusion and others dismissing the story as the latest media nothing-burger. As the…

It’s not the sort of news President Trump’s Democratic adversaries were hoping for, but it was far from nothing. On Monday we learned of special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Manafort’s business partner Rick Gates. We also learned that a foreign…

The news that a former campaign manager of a sitting president has been indicted would seem like a pretty big deal.

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the special counsel's first indictments and guilty plea.

The indictment of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort reveals, among other things, that the man knew how to spend money. In the five years between 2008 and 2013 he dropped several million dollars—from offshore accounts in Cyprus and the Grenadines—tricking out his houses in Florida and the…

The indictment of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, on charges of conspiracy and fraud was the big news from special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation Monday morning. But court documents also implicate a lower-level aide who could prove an even bigger headache for the…

The indictment of Paul Manafort and Richard Gates is filled with interesting tidbits about their businesses and lifestyles. Some highlights:

The New York Times reported Monday morning that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a business associate were ordered to surrender to federal authorities. News broke Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller had filed the first charges in his investigation into Russia’s meddling in…

Update, 8:37 a.m.: We now know the targets of the Mueller indictments. The New York Times reports that Paul Manafort and Rick Gates have been ordered to surrender to authorities in conjunction with the Russia investigation. Manafort served as manager for the Trump campaign during the summer of…

The squeeze is on Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign who has become a major target of special counsel Robert Mueller’s aggressive investigation. The latest details from the Washington Post describe email evidence that Manafort offered “private briefings” about the Trump…

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Michael Warren comes by to talk with host Eric Felten about what to make of CNN's report that, during the campaign, Paul Manafort was the object of a federal wiretap.

Ever since John Kelly was tapped as White House chief of staff, right-wing news outlets have been publishing articles making harsh allegations about Donald Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster.

The Mueller investigation is heating up, and it doesn’t look good for Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. CNN reported Monday that federal investigators wiretapped Manafort’s phones under “secret court orders” both before and after the 2016 presidential election:

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued subpoenas to two associates of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, CNN reported Tuesday.

The only thing likely protecting Steve Bannon’s job is the fact that everyone in Washington expects he’s about to lose it. Administration officials inside the West Wing are already acting as if Bannon is halfway out the door. On Meet the Press Sunday, National security adviser H.R. McMaster refused…

As the federal investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller digs deeper into the business dealings of Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for Donald Trump is changing his legal team.

Breaking news on the Russia investigation: FBI agents conducted a predawn raid on the home of Trump campaign operative Paul Manafort on July 26, according to a new report by the Washington Post. The agents had a warrant to seize documents and materials, although the significance of the documents…

Another day, another troubling development in the latest story about the possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election.

First of the Month, a leftist website, has a provocative column up titled, "Trumpism on the Left: Stephen F. Cohen and The Nation Magazine." Author Eugene Goodheart serves up a really interesting reminder that The Nation, which is nominally opposed to Trump and everything he stands for, has been…

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has volunteered to testify before the House Intelligence Committee, the committee's chairman told reporters Friday.

Lobbying firms with ties to the campaigns of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are being investigated by the Department of Justice for potential violations of foreign agent registration statutes and connections to corruption in Ukraine.

Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort has resigned. The news, first reported by the Washington Post, was confirmed by a statement Friday morning from the Republican nominee.

Paul Manafort, the Republican campaign veteran who is chairman for Donald Trump's White House bid, was reportedly engaged in a secret effort to influence Americans on behalf of the reigning pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. The Associated Press has the story:

In the New York Times's recent report on Trump aide Paul Manafort's possibly illegal payoffs from pro-Russian interests in Ukraine, there's this curious detail:

Earlier this year, Michael Warren wrote about Paul Manafort's involvement with the Trump campaign. From the outset, there were questions about his lobbying for foreign strongmen, particularly his involvement with Viktor Yanukovych and Russian interests in Ukraine. "Manafort was instrumental in…

Tuesday night on CNN's Erin Burnett Out Front, editor William Kristol discussed the news that Donald Trump refuses to pivot towards a traditional presidential campaign.

Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger said Monday that Donald Trump should look into his campaign's reported ties to the Kremlin and pro-Putin figures in Ukraine.

The New York Times's Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns have a revealing look at the tumult behind the scenes in the Donald Trump campaign. The Republican nominee for president has been under seige, they report, from advisors and aides urging Trump to remain on message and focused on winning the…

The email hack of Democratic National Committee officials has widened to include the personal account of a staffer researching Donald Trump advisor Paul Manafort's Russian political ties, according to a report from Yahoo's Michael Isikoff.

Donald J. Trump is the presidential nominee of the Republican party. But that does not absolve every Republican office holder, donor, and activist from the responsibility of satisfying himself that it is right to support that nominee for president. There are, in my judgment, many reasons to doubt…

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Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski heartily defended his ex-boss in a half-hour interview on CNN Monday, after news broke that he had been fired from the campaign.

BuzzFeed is calling the involvement of Paul Manafort in the Trump campaign, “An intelligence classification vetting nightmare scenario." This, because Trump is set to start getting classified intelligence briefings as the presumptive Republican nominee.

In Washington, the talk of the town for weeks has been Paul Manafort, the adviser recently hired by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Just read Politico, the insider journal that has mentioned Manafort in more than 100 articles in the last month. Or tune into one of the Sunday political talk…