In new book, obtained by the Guardian, 2016 campaign manager convicted of tax fraud says he was ‘very careful’ to hide advice
shortly after the arrival of Steve Bannon as campaign chairman and amid a scandal over alleged evidence of payments connected with consulting work in Ukraine.
Describing his informal advice to the Trump campaign in 2020, after four years of scandal, trial and imprisonment, he writes: “I didn’t have any prohibition against it, but I didn’t want it to become an issue.” But he also flirts with Trump’s lie about electoral fraud being the cause of his defeat, writing: “I believed there were patterns that were irregular. The results in battleground states were close enough that the fraud could be the difference between winning and losing.”After Trump lost, Manafort writes, he held off “making phone calls the day after to start working for a pardon” and instead waited on Trump.
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