“We've noted that the Clinton camp was the first to get it out there, trying to say there was something untoward about the speech Melania Trump gave. It's just another example, as far as we're concerned, that when Hillary Clinton is threatened by a female, the first thing she does is try to destroy the person.”

American former lobbyist, political consultant, and attorney, born 1949

Paul Manafort is an American former lobbyist, political consultant, and attorney. Born in 1949, he spent decades in Republican politics and later became known for leading Donald Trump’s presidential campaign from June to August 2016. Manafort advised the presidential campaigns of Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole. He co-founded the Washington, D.C. lobbying firm Black, Manafort & Stone in 1980, and he often worked for foreign leaders, including Viktor Yanukovych, Ferdinand Marcos, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Jonas Savimbi. He later registered retroactively as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.