Nobody, really. He’d hang around the office trying to get people to let him shine their shoes and horning in on Carter Page’s coffee delivery errands. Couldn’t get the sugar and cream orders right. Nobody paid him much mind. Trump’d flip him a shiny nickel every now and again to get him to shut up.
Turns out Paulie’s bad day has been followed by a whole series of lonely bad days. Because the facility he is being jailed at cannot guarantee his safety in the general population, Manafort is being held in solitary confinement.
He’s there because he violated the conditions of his bail. He’s in solitary confinement because the sheriff of the jail cannot guarantee his safety in the general population. His safety is at risk because he ■■■■■■ over many people. I am sorry that he is being held in solitary confinement, as that is not something I support. However, he brought all of this upon himself and only he is responsible for his current circumstances.
It’s not like anyone who looked into him for ten minutes even prior to his hire by the Trump campaign would be unaware he was a scumbag, a shill for the most horrible dictators in the world and a white collar crook. He ripped off a Russian oligarch about a decade or so back and the guy pursued him literally across the planet.
This reminds me of the old threads that would be like Why Is Obama Hiding? and I’d turn on the news while cruising on my laptop and he’d be giving a press conference.