Paul Manafort joined Donald Trump’s upstart presidential campaign with a long resume and a lot of experience inside what the future president would describe as the “swamp.”

Manafort, 69, has fallen from the top of a campaign that ultimately won the White House to defendant in a criminal trial that begins in an Alexandria, Va., federal courthouse Tuesday morning.

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