BREAKING NEWS: Trump campaign head Manafort agrees to cooperate with Russia probe
U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort will cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian election meddling as part of a plea deal.
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Manafort, 69, also pleaded guilty to two criminal counts, becoming the most prominent former Trump campaign official to plead guilty in Mueller's investigation.
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Manafort made millions of dollars working for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians before taking an unpaid position with Trump's campaign for five months.
He led the campaign in mid-2016 when Trump was selected as the Republican presidential nominee at the party convention.
Manafort, 69, also pleaded guilty to two criminal counts, becoming the most prominent former Trump campaign official to plead guilty in Mueller's investigation.
Manafort, 69, also pleaded guilty to two criminal counts, becoming the most prominent former Trump campaign official to plead guilty in Mueller's investigation.
"This had absolutely nothing to do with the president or his victorious 2016 presidential campaign," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said of the Manafort news on Friday. "It is totally unrelated.”
WITCH HUNT, WITCH HUNT . . . NYAH, NYAH, NYAH, NYAH . . .
Absolutely nothing to see here folks . . . Sarah Sanders says so, so it must be true!
(Would Sarah Sanders ever lie? Of course not!!!)
Moscow has denied interfering in the 2016 election and Trump has said there was no collusion.
Would Putin lie?
Of course not-- the ex-KGB Head is, and always has been, a man of honor!