​Donald Trump has run as the outsider of outsiders who'll never cater to special interests and will finally bust up the business-as-usual establishment and truly change politics. But for someone selling himself as anti-special interest, his recent additions to his team are raising some eyebrows.

Trump's new chief campaign strategist, Paul Manafort, a long-time GOP operative, has just brought on a group of entrenched lobbyists to take key roles in the campaign. Here's Politico's intro of the "industry veterans" joining Team Trump:

Among the influence industry veterans who have been helping the campaign in recent weeks, according to sources close to the Trump campaign, are Laurance Gay, who had worked with Manafort on an effort to obtain a federal grant that one congressman called a “very smelly, sleazy business,” and Doug Davenport, whose firm’s lobbying for an oppressive Southeast Asian regime became a liability for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. The pair join another former Manafort lobbying partner named Rick Gates, who was identified as an agent of a Ukrainian oligarch in a 2011 racketeering lawsuit that also named Manafort. And Manafort this week met with Marc Palazzo, a former lobbyist for a Koch Industries subsidiary who used to work as a communications staffer for GTECH Corporation, the controversial lottery operator, to which Gay, Davenport, Gates and Manafort all have ties.

While Trump has been hitting the anti-"system" message even harder as of late — adding the "rigged delegate-selection process" to his list of grievances — behind the scenes he has brought on Manafort to impose a more traditional, professional campaign structure. Despite reported pushback from some of those loyal to demoted campaign manager Corey Lewandowski who have worried about Manafort bringing in "his old lobbyist friends," the new and improved Trump campaign is moving in a familiar direction. Clearly, the "veteran GOP operative" is making sure "outsider" Trump doesn't miss out on all the power and influence the insiders offer.