Trump's mouthpiece, Paul Manafort, looks like a croupier at a 2 1/2 star Vegas hotel and casino

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[Mendocino]

1. A game show host

or maybe a mob lawyer?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. The latter... Actually a mob lawyer has won Vegas mayoral elections.

Now his wife is the mayor.

[Mendocino]

4. When they make the Trump movie,

Nathan Lane can play this guy.

[underpants]

3. Tom Delay and Chuck Woolery spawned

Woolery (Wheel of Fortune) still does sales pitches on radio ads.

[Laxman]

6. I Thought That WAS A Game Show Host....

the Joker's Wild! So fitting for Trump.

[lpbk2713]

5. Looks like an infomercial host.

Normally seen on cable channels at 2 AM.

"I'm here to tell you about an amazing breakthrough ... "

[CanonRay]

7. He is about as sleazy as they come

[spanone]

8. he's one creepy shit

[Gabi Hayes]

9. here you go, from daily beast/spy magazine:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/13/top-trump-aide-led-the-torturers-lobby.html

https://books.google.ca/books?id=qnVC8yS4N_AC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false

the above is an entire article from 1992's Spy, which details, in prank form, the lengths to which monsters like Charles Black, Manafort, and Lee Atwater would go in order to make a living.

if anyone wants to get a real-time glimpse of the man of the hour, try this:

https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=spy+archives&=#hl=en&tbm=bks&q=donald+trump+spy+magazine++

as Spy devoted a good deal of space to him from its inception in 1986 to its demise in 1998

here's a link which has a bunch of Spy articles gathered together:

http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/08/spy-vs-trump-the-best-donald-trump-moments-from-spy-magazine-1986-98.html

[Gabi Hayes]

10. for those who haven't seen stuff like this, or who'd liked a refresher:

Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly was one of the first political consulting concerns to work for Ronald Reagan's Presidential candidacy in 1980. Since then it has become a power broker that thrives on a hardball approach.

Since 1980, when it was formed to consult conservative Republicans, Black, Manafort has hired some Democrats to broaden its influence and has branched out into lobbying. Its client list includes the Government of Somalia, the Tobacco Institute, Aetna Life & Casualty, Bethlehem Steel, the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, Trans World Airlines and the Chicago Regional Transit Authority.

The principals in the concern, Charles R. Black Jr., Paul J. Manafort, Roger J. Stone and Peter G. Kelly, were key strategists in President Bush's campaign last year.

Lee Atwater, the Republican national chairman, became a full partner in Black, Manafort after the 1984 Presidential campaign, and later moved on to head Mr. Bush's Presidential campaign.


http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/21/us/a-political-power-broker.html

and most still vividly remember the honorable Roger Stone

https://www.google.com/search?q=roger+stone&biw=911&bih=391&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiXt5qFy9zMAhXICD4KHcnHAaQQ_AUICCgD#tbm=isch&q=roger+stone+tattoo

[Vinca]

11. I would've guessed cast member on "The Sopranos."

[UTUSN]

12. A combo of "creep" and "sleeze" - filthy rehabilitator of oligarch dictators. n/t