Ex-Trump aides often find a soft landing for staying quiet
(World News USA)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And, perhaps, your potential leakers closer yet. President Donald Trump`s political operation has made a regular practice of providing soft landing-pads for discarded staffers, offering nebulous jobs at big salaries to aides who have been pushed out of his West Wing. The revelation this week that former White House assistant Omarosa Manigault Newman was offered a high-paying job on Trump`s re-election campaign in return for signing a non-disclosure agreement was the clearest demonstration yet of how a slot in the Trump orbit is being used to take care of loyalists - and protect against potential liabilities. Manigault Newman,...