Roger Stone got Manafort hired as trump campaign chairman - Daily Beast, April 2017:

[Leghorn21]

Roger Stone, a former adviser and longtime friend of President Donald Trump, played a pivotal role in getting former campaign chairman Paul Manafort a job, three former Trump campaign officials told The Daily Beast.

Manafort, now the subject of a FBI investigation pertaining to alleged connections between Russian officials and Trump’s campaign, initially joined the campaign in April 2016. His role began with delegate operations, ensuring that the Republican National Convention went off without a hitch and ended in Trump securing the nomination. By May, Manafort was named the campaign chairman and by June, Trump’s first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was out.

According to the officials familiar with the deliberations, at the outset of Stone’s time with the campaign, he made a strong case to Trump to bring in Manafort. Manafort himself backs that version of events up in an interview for the upcoming Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone, which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23.

more:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-convinced-trump-to-hire-paul-manafort-former-officials-say

[emulatorloo]

1. Stone, Manafort, and Trump go way back. To the studio 54 era.

The Quiet American
Paul Manafort made a career out of stealthily reinventing the world’s nastiest tyrants as noble defenders of freedom. Getting Donald Trump elected will be a cinch.

APRIL 28 2016 5:30 AM
By Franklin Foer

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The genesis of Donald Trump’s relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy’s heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the ’70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit. (Cohn accused the Feds of using “Gestapo-like tactics.”) But Cohn and Trump became genuine pals, lunching at the Four Seasons and clubbing together at Studio 54. It was Roy Cohn who introduced Stone and Manafort to Trump.

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210279581

[Leghorn21]

3. Thanks, e - I heard that Manafort brought Pence on board, but had no idea Stone brought on

Manafort ... whew, the stuff I’m learning this evening!! - I just posted a link to a 2014 story about how Stone helped get Sheriff Israel elected in 2012, so what’s left of my brain is SPINNIN tonight !!!!

[Leghorn21]

6. Thank you again, e!! I cannot keep up, too many players, too fired UP, but thats a great

article you posted, AND - these OLDER articles contain so much great info, as seen in light of “current events”!!

Many thanks!!

[Cha]

2. Is this and a few other things, why trump

is more ballistic than usual?

Link to tweet

Mahalo, Leghorn

[Corgigal]

4. His turn in the barrel

Squeal, you corrupt ass.

[malaise]

5. Since H2OMan alluded to Stone a few days ago

I've been waiting for this shoe to drop.
Lock them all up!

[no_hypocrisy]

7. When will Bob Mueller invite Roger Stone for a little visit?