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Former Trump Campaign Chair Manafort to Register as Foreign Agent

HeadlineApr 13, 2017

Eric Trump’s comment came as the Associated Press reported Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, will register retroactively with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, for lobbying he carried out between 2012 and 2014 on behalf of a pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank. The revelation came a day after The Washington Post reported the FBI obtained a secret FISA warrant to monitor the communications of Trump adviser Carter Page last summer, arguing Carter was acting as a Russian agent.

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