WH: Mueller Filing On Manafort Lies ‘Says Absolutely Nothing About The President’

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders brushed off a filing from special counsel Robert Mueller detailing Paul Manafort’s lies to investigators, saying, “The government’s filing in Mr. Manafort’s case says absolutely nothing about the President.”

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“The government’s filing in Mr. Manafort’s case says absolutely nothing about the President. It says even less about collusion and is devoted almost entirely to lobbying-related issues. Once again the media is trying to create a story where there isn’t one.”

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  1. “Political synergy” with Russia.

    Hmmm

  2. Isn’t he the guy who was running donnie’s campaign? Seems like it might be attached to donnie somehow.

  3. If it says nothing about the president and it’s not related to the president at all, why even bother of putting out a statement?

  4. This is a simple contradiction of easily provable facts. And it’s entirely unsurprising; it’s what we’ve long been used to from this administration. No other advanced liberal democracy does business like this.

  5. “The government’s filing in Mr. Manafort’s case says absolutely nothing about the President.”

    “It mentions an ‘Individual 1’ many times, but not a word about ‘the President.’”

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