Among the enduring curiosities of Donald Trump’s presidential run was his announcement that campaign chairman Paul Manafort was an unpaid volunteer.
Why would a longtime political fixer do that? That question has grown more persistent thanks to successive indictments of Manafort by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, each documenting in finer detail Manafort’s allegedly fraudulent scramble for cash just as he was taking the campaign job in spring 2016.
