On August 19, Paul Manafort resigns as Trump’s campaign manager, though the move is a cosmetic one only. As the New Yorker will later report, “FBI wiretaps show that Manafort continued his association with Trump long after he resigned. Manafort was also in touch with his business partner,” Rick Gates, who after Manafort resigns remains on the campaign but “transition[s] to become [campaign] liaison with the Republican National Committee,” according to NBC News; post-inauguration, Gates will come to be regarded as a “White House insider.”
