Top Aide: Trump Won’t Pick A Female Or Minority VP Because ‘Pandering’

Paul Manafort , senior aid to Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump attends an event on foreign policy in Washington on Wednesday April 27, 2016 in Washington, DC, USA. Photo by Olivier Douliery/Sipa USA
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A top campaign aide for Donald Trump threw cold water on the idea that the presumptive GOP nominee would chose a woman or a minority to join him on his ticket.

“In fact, that would be viewed as pandering, I think,” Trump advisor Paul Manafort told the Huffington Post.

Manafort said that Trump was looking for a VP who would have the experience to do the things that Trump would not want to do as president.

“He seems himself more as the chairman of the board, than even the CEO, let alone the COO,” Manafort said. He added that “there is a long list of who that person could be,” but that “every one of them has major problems.”

The comments came in a wide-ranging interview in which Manafort outlined what to expect from Trump as he pivots towards a general election race against the likely Dem nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Manafort said Trump has “already started moderating” on his proposal to ban Muslim immigration into the United States, but he will stand by his vow to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico.

“That is a core thing with him,” Manafort said.

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  1. Trump’s agenda has been set: pander only to emotionally insecure white males (with small hands).

  2. Manafort has been wrong several times recently. (“It’s all an act; he’ll be more presidential after being nominated.”) He seems to think either he himslef is the candidate, or he can control Trump.

  3. Gingrich it is then, because he’s a pompous blowhard?

  4. And he wants the VP to do the shit he doesn’t want to do as President? WTF!

  5. And because Mitt refuses to share his Binders Full of Women.

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