It’s always a mistake for a consultant to make himself the story, let alone to put down his candidate to the haters.

UPDATE from Jaay Stephenson:

I don’t know much about Manafort, but it is a promising development that Trump is leery of establishment types taking over his campaign. Reagan had his good points when he ran for president too until spook Bill Casey took over his campaign and later took over his presidency along with other trilateralists and neocons.