Trump Lights Up Mueller Again After Special Counsel Accuses Manafort of Lying
President Trump took another swipe at Robert Mueller on Tuesday, a day after the special counsel accused former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort of lying to investigators.
“Wait until it comes out how horribly & viciously they are treating people, ruining lives for them refusing to lie,” he wrote on Twitter, adding that Mueller is a “conflicted prosecutor gone rogue.”
The special counsel is “doing TREMENDOUS damage to our Criminal Justice System,” he said.
The Phony Witch Hunt continues, but Mueller and his gang of Angry Dems are only looking at one side, not the other. Wait until it comes out how horribly & viciously they are treating people, ruining lives for them refusing to lie. Mueller is a conflicted prosecutor gone rogue….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2018
….The Fake News Media builds Bob Mueller up as a Saint, when in actuality he is the exact opposite. He is doing TREMENDOUS damage to our Criminal Justice System, where he is only looking at one side and not the other. Heroes will come of this, and it won’t be Mueller and his…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2018
….terrible Gang of Angry Democrats. Look at their past, and look where they come from. The now $30,000,000 Witch Hunt continues and they’ve got nothing but ruined lives. Where is the Server? Let these terrible people go back to the Clinton Foundation and “Justice” Department!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2018
“Heroes will come of this, and it won’t be Mueller and his terrible Gang of Angry Democrats,” Trump wrote. “The now $30,000,000 Witch Hunt continues and they’ve got nothing but ruined lives.”
Mueller’s investigators said in a court filing Monday that Manafort violated his plea agreement by lying multiple times to FBI and special counsel investigators.
Mueller said Manafort should be sentenced immediately given the alleged breach. He faces a maximum of a decade in jail after pleading guilty in September to several financial crimes and conspiring to obstruct justice. If he is found to have violated the plea agreement, the promised leniency for his sentence in the D.C. case will likely be forfeited. He still faces a separate sentencing from a Virginia case where he was convicted of bank and tax fraud.
He is the highest-profile witness the Mueller team has charged with crimes as they proceed with the Russia investigation, which was opened to uncover any evidence members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 presidential election.
“After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement,” prosecutors stated.
“He believes he has provided truthful information” and attwmpted to “live up to his cooperation obligations,” Manafort’s lawyers pushed back
Investigators did not go into detail about what they believe Manafort lied about or what led them to that conclusion.
