President Donald Trump on Tuesday responded to the guilty verdict against his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort by saying he felt “very badly” for Manafort.
Trump emphasized that the charges against Manafort “had nothing to do with Russian collusion.”
“We continue the witch hunt!” he said before turning away from news cameras, having made no mention of Michael Cohen’s guilty plea in New York.
Trump responds to Manafort verdict, makes no mention of Cohen guilty plea pic.twitter.com/plgfptCNfO
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) August 21, 2018
There’s not anything else he really can say about Manafort’s verdict, no surprise that he threw in the “no collusion!” and “witch hunt!” tags as well.
He totally ignored the Cohen plea…I suspect we’ll hear something tonight during his rally, because that basically just implicated him in a conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws, which is definitely an impeachable offense (if we had a Congress that would do its job of course). You know someone has said he should make no comments on Cohen, and that he’ll be building up to a huge explosion, if not tonight then in the next couple of days.
I’m waiting to see the spin that the conservative world tries to put on the Cohen plea and campaign finance violations of Trump…it’s going to make “truth isn’t truth!” look quaint. Heck, all that spin might change the length of the Earth’s day!
Trump is such a pathetic loser.
He’s saving the real eruption for the rabble in West Virginia.
Of course it doesn’t. So why was a man that deep into debt willing to run your campaign for free? Surely you asked that question. Surely you would have asked, or at least wondered why Manafort wanted you to add specific language regarding the Russians into the GOP Platform?
So Trump’s campaign manager and personal lawyer both either plead guilty or were found guilty today. With Cohen directly implicating Trump on the payoffs. Inching ever closer and he’s feeling the heat. I despise his rallies, but to be a fly on the wall tonight…
Melania may want to consider leaving for Africa tonight.