{"id":11323,"date":"2018-11-28T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11323"},"modified":"2018-11-28T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:21:17","slug":"manafort-lawyer-is-said-to-have-briefed-trump-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/manafort-lawyer-is-said-to-have-briefed-trump-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Manafort lawyer is said to have briefed Trump attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/151f08db395847028c7fe9527444b0f8-f2cd1b9065954aca889e86a46aedd8a4-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/151f08db395847028c7fe9527444b0f8-f2cd1b9065954aca889e86a46aedd8a4-0-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/151f08db395847028c7fe9527444b0f8-f2cd1b9065954aca889e86a46aedd8a4-0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/151f08db395847028c7fe9527444b0f8-f2cd1b9065954aca889e86a46aedd8a4-0-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/151f08db395847028c7fe9527444b0f8-f2cd1b9065954aca889e86a46aedd8a4-0.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>The Boston Globe<\/strong><br \/>\nby Michael S. Schmidt and Sharon LaFraniere &#8212; New York Times, November 27, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>WASHINGTON \u2014 A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the president\u2019s onetime campaign chairman, repeatedly briefed President Trump\u2019s lawyers on his client\u2019s discussions with federal investigators after Manafort agreed to cooperate with the special counsel, according to one of Trump\u2019s lawyers and two other people familiar with the conversations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Downing did not respond to a request for comment. Though it was unclear how frequently he spoke to Trump\u2019s lawyers or how much he revealed, his updates helped reassure Trump\u2019s legal team that Manafort had not implicated the president in any possible wrongdoing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On Tuesday morning, Trump unleashed another blistering attack on Mueller, calling him a \u2018\u2018conflicted prosecutor gone rogue\u2019\u2019 who is doing \u2018\u2018TREMENDOUS damage\u2019\u2019 to the criminal justice system. \u2018\u2018Wait until it comes out how horribly &amp; viciously they are treating people, ruining lives for them refusing to lie,\u2019\u2019 Trump said. \u2018\u2018Mueller is a conflicted prosecutor gone rogue. . . . 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,\u201d Trump tweeted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/nation\/2018\/11\/27\/trump-steps-attack-mueller\/2PaO336w4GgCQWzWzMgbSP\/story.html\">https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/nation\/2018\/11\/27\/trump-steps-attack-mueller\/2PaO336w4GgCQWzWzMgbSP\/story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe by Michael S. Schmidt and Sharon LaFraniere &#8212; New York Times, November 27, 2018 Excerpts: WASHINGTON \u2014 A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the president\u2019s onetime campaign chairman, repeatedly briefed President Trump\u2019s lawyers on his client\u2019s discussions with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/manafort-lawyer-is-said-to-have-briefed-trump-attorneys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11325,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}