Steve Bannon and Paul Manafort were advising the Trump campaign days before the election. Bannon told Kushner to avoid Manafort 'like the plague.'

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• Newly released emails show Steve Bannon and Paul Manafort were advising the Trump campaign days before the 2016 election despite both being fired.
• In November 2016, Jared Kushner asked Bannon his opinion about a memo forwarded to the campaign by Paul Manafort, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed.
• Bannon warned Kushner to avoid Manafort "like the plague," because of the optics around his connections to Ukraine and Russia.
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Breitbart founder and former campaign head Steve Bannon was still advising President Donald Trump's campaign days before the 2016 election, despite being fired in August, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.

In an email to Jared Kushner on November 5, 2016 (three days before the presidential election) Bannon warned the now-senior White House adviser, to stay away from former campaign head Paul Manafort.

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