From Esquire

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA-Even out here, hard by the missile silos, we noticed that, when it comes to Paul Manafort and Donald J. Trump, like Donkey Kong, it is on. There was the early-morning FBI raid on Manafort's house, and "early-morning FBI raid" is never a phrase in connection with which you want your name connected in a headline. At almost the same time, the National Enquirer, the most diseased of the house organs at the beck and call of the president*, teed up Manafort with one of its typically nuanced front pages:

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Yeah, I'd say that Manafort has been simultaneously thrown over the side and under the bus. There's a certain raw predatory glee in which this president* dispatches inconvenient people that is fascinating in a purely clinical sense. But it doesn't make for good government, and it sure as hell doesn't help you when there's a special prosecutor on your trail and when the person being dispatched probably has a paper trail that leads straight up your spinal column.

Manafort always was the key. The guy made a career lobbying for really terrible people, eventually (and inevitably) lobbying for really terrible people connected to the crooked Russian oligarchy. The FBI's forensic accountants must be looking at his books the way that the Leakeys looked at Olduvai Gorge. My guess is that, very soon, it will reach the point at which Manafort would roll on the Archangel Gabriel to keep from spending several centuries in jail. He will have to give the prosecutor something, and he knows why the Enquirer piled on during the worst day of his life. This bird can sing.

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