The New York Times

Trump and Paul Manafort
"'In 2017, The New York Times published an article insinuating that Trump and Manafort had no real relationship until 2016, when Manafort fortuitously appeared in the Trump Tower elevator to charm him, like characters in a rom-com from hell. The article did not mention that Manafort had known Trump since the 1980s, had lived in Trump Tower since 2006, and was linked to Trump through Cohn, Stone, and a mafia syndicate intertwined with the Kremlin. To grasp why a Pulitzer Prize–winning paper would cover up that story—an accurate and far more interesting story—in favor of bland falsehoods is key to understanding how Trump operates.'"