Trump’s Campaign Manager Advocates for Breaking up the Banks
The man steering Donald Trump’s run for the presidency, Paul Manafort, informed reporters that the party’s platform under the presumptive GOP nominee would include a call to break up certain big banks. During a morning briefing on Monday ahead of the start of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Manafort claimed that the party platform contained language pushing for the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act. He said that its revival was necessary to enact “barriers between what the big banks can do and try to avoid some…