Manafort pulls surprise on Trump with Mueller deal
The pressure on President Trump was ratcheted up a few more notches on Friday with news of Paul Manafort striking a deal to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s prosecutors.
The decision by Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, came as a surprise even to seasoned observers of the Mueller probe who were expecting a guilty plea but not a “flip” by the former aide.
Manafort has firsthand knowledge of a number of key issues, including the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower which he attended along with a Russian lawyer, the president’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Last month, when Manafort was convicted on eight separate felony charges in Virginia, the president praised him for having “refused to ‘break.’ ”
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