White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders quickly responded to former Trump campaign head Paul Manafort’s plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, saying it was “unrelated” to President Trump’s 2016 campaign.
“This had absolutely nothing to do with the president or his victorious 2016 presidential campaign,” Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Friday, first reported by ABC News. “It is totally unrelated.”
Manafort pleaded guilty to two charges from Mueller on Friday, and agreed to work with the special counsel as part of the plea deal. It’s unclear what Manafort’s cooperation with Mueller entails.
Manafort on Friday pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice by witness tampering.
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#BREAKING: White House responds to Paul Manafort’s plea deal with Mueller https://t.co/hCkNEXtxhh pic.twitter.com/pIySNfiVI7
— The Hill (@thehill) September 14, 2018
NEW: Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Manafort: "Once again an investigation has concluded with a plea having nothing to do with President Trump or the Trump campaign. The reason: the President did nothing wrong and Paul Manafort will tell the truth.” https://t.co/I07uCEa5JX pic.twitter.com/8BO9G6SCdG
— ABC News (@ABC) September 14, 2018
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
Denial is not that river in Egypt.
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