Reporter: 'Are you ruling out a pardon for Manafort?' Trump: 'I don't even discuss it. The only one discussing it is you...I know that in watching you folks at night that Michael Cohen lied about the pardon.'
also ran with a comment from the federal judge who handed down Manafort’s sentence, saying he was “honored” that the judge said his campaign did not collude with Russia — though Trump appeared to be skewing the statement.
U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III was careful to note in Thursday’s sentencing hearing that despite Manafort’s charges stemming from Mueller’s probe, the longtime GOP operative and lobbyist was not before the Eastern District of Virginia court “for anything having to do with colluding with the Russian government," a comment the president and his allies have seized on.
Earlier Friday, Trump praised Ellis and Downing in a tweet. “Both the Judge and the lawyer in the Paul Manafort case stated loudly and for the world to hear that there was NO COLLUSION with Russia,” he wrote. While the bulk of the crimes Manafort was convicted of last August were committed prior to his work for Trump, prosecutors have argued that some of the bank fraud charges against him involved claims he traded on his influence in Trump circles to fraudulently obtain bank loans.
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