Stephen Bannon told Jared Kushner to avoid Paul Manafort 'like the plague'

Jared Kushner and Stephen Bannon.
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Despite formally resigning in August 2016, Paul Manafort was still advising the Trump campaign three days before the election, Buzzfeed News reports.

Beginning in April, Buzzfeed filed five separate Freedom of Information Act lawsuits in an effort to obtain all the subpoenas and search warrants former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team executed during its investigation into 2016 election interference. The first round of documents were published Saturday, highlighted by emails and other various forms of correspondence that were subject to investigation.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.