The Post's Robert Costa, Dan Balz and Jose A. DelReal have reported that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's resignation this morning was expected, following some campaign staff changes earlier in the week.
But that wasn’t the only news that preceded his exit. There were also a wave of fresh headlines dealing with investigations into his ties to a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. Trump has come under fire from Democrats and Republicans with his friendly overtures to Russia – a country his party’s 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney, called America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.” The recent revelations about Manafort’s work in that part of the world did nothing to dismiss the image of a Trump campaign closer to Russia than many foreign policy experts were comfortable with.
