President Trump’s legal team said Friday that former campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors had “nothing to do with President Trump or the Trump campaign.”
“The reason: the President did nothing wrong,” Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani said in a statement.
According to CNBC reporter Eamon Javers, Trump’s attorneys predicted in an initial statement that Manafort “will tell the truth,” before sending out a “corrected” version of the statement stripped of that line.
The president’s legal team put out an initial statement that said: “the President did nothing wrong and Paul Manafort will tell the truth.” Minutes later, they put out a new statement that said simply: “the President did nothing wrong.”
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) September 14, 2018
Guliani:
The fact that he knew the election was being stolen on his behalf doesn’t count
When dealing with Trump it helps to remember that ‘the buck stops with Obama’
They had to pull that line that said “Manafort will tell the truth” after they realized he probably would.
Ya ya Sgt Shultz and all that
Oops! Almost attested to Manafort’s honesty and truthfulness in the pending investigation and legal proceedings.
Can’t be doing that. Will probably have to attack him.
Lousy rat!
63 women from high school said he was as pure as the driven snow.