President Donald Trump is not fretting about talk his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort may cut a plea deal ahead of his upcoming trial in Washington D.C.
Paul Manafort, 69, is reportedly discussing a plea deal with prosecutors in DC
Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani told Politico the president isn't worried about Manafort possibly flipping, a practice Trump has condemned in the past.
Manafort is scheduled to go on trial in D.C. on September 17, on charges including money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent. Jury selection begins that day with opening arguments to follow a week later.
There has been speculation he could cut a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller before returning to court.
'We can see a reason why he might want to do that. What's the need for another trial?' Giuliani said. 'They've got enough to put him in jail. His lawyer is going to argue they shouldn't. The judge should decide this. Not Mueller. I think it's pretty clear if they were going to get anything from him, they'd have gotten it already.
'What's the point of further harassing him?'
Manafort was convicted on eight counts in his first trial last month, and is said to be discussing a plea deal ahead of the second trial.
President Trump has expressed sympathy for what his former campaign manager is going through
Manafort was found guilty on eight counts of tax and bank fraud at an August trial in Virginia court. He has yet to be sentenced.
Trump and his team are unconcerned about a possible plea deal, Giuliani said, because they're convinced Manafort has no damaging info on the president.
'From our perspective, we want him to do the right thing for himself,' Giuliani said. 'There's no fear that Paul Manafort would cooperate against the president because there's nothing to cooperate about and we long ago evaluated him as an honorable man.'
A plea deal could benefit Trump in that it would keep Manafort and the Russia investigation out of the news ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
And, given the nature of the charges he was convicted on in Virginia, at 69 Manafort could be facing life in prison simply from those convictions.
Even though Manafort's charges stem from his lobbying business and not his campaign work for Trump, the prosecution came from the Mueller probe of Russia's election meddling.
And Manafort was part of the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting where he, Donald Trump Jr., and Jared Kushner met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Plea deals typically require the person to share useful information with prosecutors, but prosecutors will sometimes give concessions to someone who won't cooperate but is willing to plead guilty to some charges.
Giuliani confirmed that Trump's legal team and Manafort's are in regular contact and that they are part of a joint defense agreement that allows confidential information sharing.
Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said the president isn't worried about Paul Manafort possibly flipping
The president has expressed sympathy for Manafort, unlike his reaction to his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to eight counts the same day Manafort was convicted.
'I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family,' Trump tweeted after the Virginia trial's verdict. '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!'
There has been speculation the president could pardon Manafort, which he has not tamped down.
He has praised his former campaign chairman for not flipping.
'One of the reasons I respect Paul Manafort so much is he went through that trial — you know they make up stories. People make up stories. This whole thing about flipping, they call it, I know all about flipping,' Trump told 'Fox & Friends' last month. 'It's called flipping, and it almost ought to be illegal. ... For 30, 40 years I've been watching flippers. Everything's wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they — they flip on whoever the next highest one is, or as high as you can go.'
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Main photo article President Donald Trump is not fretting about talk his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort may cut a plea deal ahead of his upcoming trial in Washington D.C.
Paul Manafort, 69, is reportedly discussing a plea deal with prosecutors in DC
Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani told Politico...
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