Ukraine releases details of alleged payments to Trump’s aide

Manafort, who first joined the campaign in March, had presided over a period in which Trump had formally sealed the Republican presidential nomination after seeing off 16 rivals. Amid polls that showed the real estate mogul struggling in key states, the campaign promoted adviser Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager and added Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon as campaign chief executive. At a Baptist church later, a woman screamed “Thank you for coming, Mr. Trump” as he and Pence sat down with volunteers.

Weary Republican leaders are accepting Donald Trump’s latest staff shake-up, hopeful that a new leadership team can reverse the NY businessman’s struggles even as some worry it’s too little, too late. The newspaper noted that Obama interrupted his two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard earlier this week to attend a fundraiser for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the MA island.

Trump’s trip to Louisiana, a departure for the candidate who has generally preferred mass rallies and television phone-ins, comes a day after he made a rare expression of remorse. “But what the most important thing is is this is a reminder to me and the American public that Donald Trump will do anything it takes to win”.

He has since faced a barrage of criticism from Republicans over his campaign style and his refusal to stick to a policy message. In particular, he has been rebuked for his prolonged feud with the family of a Muslim US Army captain who was killed in the Iraq war.

On Wednesday afternoon, Trump received his first intelligence briefing from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

A different outside security firm was hired to examine software the Trump and Clinton campaigns use to manage mailings, electronic outreach and other campaign efforts, another person who was briefed on the issue said. One 2013 study found that the effects of a presidential campaign ad disappeared within a few days after its airing. John McCain’s five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam last summer – “I like people that weren’t captured”, he said – Trump declined. Pushing his anti-Clinton film “Clinton Cash” in May, Bannon said he wanted progressives to “understand how the Clintons, who proclaim that they support all your values, essentially have sold you out for money”.

“I have done that”, the GOP nominee, reading from prepared text, said at a rally in Charlotte, N.C. Thursday night. Conway is analytical and numbers-driven and often offers a more pragmatic approach to winning campaigns. She is expected to travel with Trump.

Yet at least 110 Republicans, including two retiring GOP congressmen, Scott Rigell and Reid Ribble, say Trump is a lost cause, signing a letter urging the committee to abandon Trump. I guess – I mean, just how does this help Donald Trump become more appealing to, you know, the swing voters that you’ll need?

Kevin Kellems, a longtime Republican strategist, called Conway “the complete package”. “It’s more like he’s trying to catch Ryan Lochte”.

“But I would certainly want to make sure that resources into a turnout mechanism aren’t turning out pro-Trump, anti-Republican votes that could sink the rest of the ticket”. “If you start pivoting, you’re not being honest with people”. “I was not involved in any payment plans”, he said. “It’s only the middle of August”.

Making no direct mention of her opponent in her opening remarks, Clinton called on Americans to be “clear-eyed” about the country’s challenges. “With Donald Trump, he is still his own best messenger because people see him as very authentic.”.

“He’s always pushing things that are disruptive to the Republican Party”, another senior Republican said of Bannon.

Manafort, in a statement earlier this week, has denied any wrongdoing.