Paul Manafort drops legal team for Russia-Trump investigation

The Trumpeters have openly turned on Manafort, but the undercurrents are hard to read from the outside.

Either:

  1. The Enquirer story and West Wing leaks were a warning shot at Manafort, forcing him to swap his lawyers (who may have been looking for a deal) with a team more to the Trumpeter’s liking (stonewall, deny and delay instead of deal).

Or

  1. The Trumpeters have decided to cut Manafort loose and use him as a scapegoat, and the change of lawyers is Manafort moving to a less Trump-loyal firm.

Hard to say which, but I’d bet on (1).

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