Thread. This Manafort story from @FranklinFoer is jaw-dropping. It provides essential context and makes Manafort’s whole involvement with the campaign even more suspicious. Manafort is suicidal in 2015 – yet a year later he’s volunteered to be on the Trump campaign…1/

— Max Bergmann (@maxbergmann) January 28, 2018

So the question is how does Manafort go from that terrible state to running the Trump campaign a year later? 5/

— Max Bergmann (@maxbergmann) January 28, 2018