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Donald Trump’s New Campaign Adviser Is A Man Of Mystery

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s new campaign adviser is helping him look more presidential. The man of mystery comes with a bag of tricks that is going to make the Donald a more palatable candidate for the White House regardless of his past. At a recent private meeting at a beachside Florida resort, the kingmaker who in the past has helped dictators, African tyrants and Ukrainian kleptocrats, impressed senior Republican officials with a PowerPoint presentation outlining Trumps’ path to the White House. The Telegraph reports: “The part that he’s been playing is now evolving into the part that you’ve been expecting. The negatives will come down, the image is going to change,” said Paul Manafort, who recently took up a senior role in Mr Trump’s campaign. The message was simple: the bombastic character who has courted outrage to appeal to the party base was, in fact, a calculating candidate playing a role. In the weeks to come, he would take on a new persona, that of president in waiting as he pivoted towards a general election against Hillary Clinton. Some analysts have already detected a difference in tone as Mr Trump’s divisive campaign tries to broaden its appeal. Mr Manafort, who was hired by [...]