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Sunday, 21 August 2016

Life under the bus

It’s been a busy week for US politics, with two prominent figures thrown under the bus by both presidential campaigns: Trump dumping Paul Manafort and Hillary Clinton blaming the idea of private email use on former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Only hours after we noted on Friday in our weekend edition that questions regarding Manafort’s past political consulting for the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych were casting a black cloud over the Trump campaign, Manafort’s resignation was announced in a short statement. Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, confirmed that Manafort had been asked to step down.

Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told the FBI in early July that former Secretary of State Colin Powell had advised her to use a personal email account for non-classified work-related matters during her tenure as Secretary of State, according to documents handed over by the FBI to the US Congress on Tuesday, the NYT reports. Clinton reportedly testified that Powell had offered her the advice in a dinner attended by a number of former secretaries of state, including Madeleine Albright and Condoleeza Rice.

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