6 months that Manafort was leading the Trump campaign if you count the early days before he was named Campaign Chairman, all the way through the RNC where Trump secured the Republican nomination as the GOP’s nominee for President.
What’s there to “get”? It’s math. Trump is trying to minimize his connection to Manafort by falsely suggesting that Manafort worked for the campaign for 49 days. That number is flat-out wrong. He worked for the campaign for 144 days: that’s longer than either Bannon or Conway.
The sad irony is that Paul Manafort might have continued on with his plush, shady, blood-soaked life had he just avoided something that’s monumentally easy to avoid: winning a presidential election.
Manafort thought he was being pretty sly with his attempted obstruction of justice. Glad the DoJ caught the scumbag in the act and now he gets to rest in jail for…ever?