Things are not looking good for Donald Trump when it comes to the Mueller investigation. Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort has “agreed to fully cooperate.” This came just a few weeks after the president had said that flipping “almost ought to be outlawed.” Although Manafort’s actual role with the Mueller investigation still remains unclear, it comes after
Trump has been praising Manafort on Twitter.
Aug 22, 2018:
I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. “Justice” took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to “break” - make up stories in order to get a “deal.” Such respect for a brave man!
It will be interesting to see how Trump reacts to this news, but it doesn’t seem like it’s going too well.
Washington Correspondent Eamon Javers tweeted a few hours after the news came out:
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.”
Things did not get better today for Donald Trump. According to Vanity Fair, Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen may also be giving the Mueller investigation information.
As noted by Vanity Fair:
Since last month, his primary concern has been his family—what a prison sentence could mean for them, and what his financial situation will look like, given his mounting legal bills and lack of income. He had expressed to friends that he was willing to share what he knows, both because he wants to be on the right side of history, and to spare them.
As one longtime friend of Cohen’s put it to me, “He doesn’t feel he needs to go out of his way to protect Trump anymore, particularly because Trump has gone out of his way to hurt Michael.” Earlier this week, Cohen and his attorney sat down with New York state tax-department officials, who subpoenaed him last month as part of their inquiry into the Trump Foundation.
According to people close to him, Cohen closely watched the White House’s reaction to his allocution in court last month. He listened as Trump railed against anyone who makes a plea deal, telling Fox News that cooperating with the government “almost ought to be outlawed.” And he has bristled at the feeling that he has taken the fall for a man who has refused to take any responsibility or face any consequence himself. In conversations with Mueller’s team, he is making good on what he told ABC earlier this summer: that his loyalty to Trump is no longer his lodestar.
Trump has been able to chew people up, and spit them out, because he’s a giant prick. Maybe his tactics may have finally “flipped” on him…
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