Trump On Manafort Sharing Polling: ‘I Didn’t Know Anything About That’

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President Donald Trump said it was news to him that his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sharing campaign polling data with a Russian associate during the 2016 campaign.

“I didn’t know anything about that,” he said Thursday to assembled reporters before leaving for his border trip.

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  1. “I didn’t know anything about that…”

    Starting to sound way too familiar

  2. Avatar for hychka hychka says:

    I don’ No frum nottin’!

  3. “I didn’t know anything about that,
    gee where have I heard that line before?
    he forgot, you have to call my lawyer

  4. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    It’s always easy to over-read a Trump statement, but “I didn’t know anything about that” is uncharacteristically not a denial. His more typical go-to would be something to the effect of “didn’t happen” or “thirteen Angry Democrats made it up” or whatever.

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