The Democratic National Committee is launching a major attack against the RNC's plans for its convention, which will reportedly involve former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
FIRST ON FOX: Democrats are launching a major attack on Republicans' plans for their party convention that reportedly include former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was pardoned by the former president after being convicted on bank and tax fraud charges in 2018.
Manafort will fit right in with the C-Team of election deniers, conspiracy theorists, and absolute weirdos that make up Donald Trump’s MAGA takeover of the GOP,' the organization said in a separate statement earlier this week. 'This latest report just confirms that Trump’s soft on crime approach for the violent insurrections who stormed the Capitol on January 6 extends to tax cheats and fraudsters as well.
According to the report, McBride traveled to Mar-a-Lago in 2022 to meet with Trump's legal team about his efforts, and has maintained periodic contact with them since. It was first reported by The Washington Post on Monday that Manafort was in talks to help with the Republican National Convention, which will be held in Milwaukee in July, but that it had not been decided in what capacity.
After Trump's election, he was swept up in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian collusion, which ultimately led to the financial crimes charges against him. He was pardoned by Trump in 2020. The reports that Manafort could help with the convention come just over a week after Trump became the presumptive GOP nominee for president with victories in the Mississippi, Georgia and Washington primaries.
week earlier, former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel stepped down from her role, and was replaced by staunch Trump ally Michael Whatley. Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, was elected as Whatley's co-chair, solidifying the former president's hold on party leadership and infrastructure. Fox News Digital has reached out to Manafort, the Trump campaign and the RNC for comment.
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