President Donald Trump resumed his relentless attack on special counsel Robert Mueller Wednesday, accusing prosecutors of pressuring key witnesses to lie following developments that could land Paul Manafort in jail for the rest of his life.
Trump, who has repeatedly called the Mueller Russia probe a 'witch hunt' and attacked the special counsel as 'conflicted,' on Twitter alleged prosecutorial misconduct but without saying against whom or providing evidence.
'While the disgusting Fake News is doing everything within their power not to report it that way, at least 3 major players are intimating that the Angry Mueller Gang of Dems is viciously telling witnesses to lie about facts & they will get relief,' the president claimed.
Trump indicated he had insider knowledge of meetings between Mueller's team and Manafort in tweets posted this month
'This is our Joseph McCarthy Era!' Trump charged.
Trump's outburst at prosecutors came amid new twists in the Mueller probe – including prosecutors claiming in a court filing that Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort committed 'lies' contrary to a plea agreement even as he remains confined in a Virginia jail.
Although the president didn't specify who he was referring to, one likely figure is conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, who gave media interviews Tuesday blasting Mueller's investigators.
ATTACK MODE: Trump went after the media and prosecutors on Wednesday
Corsi says prosecutors want him to agree to a plea deal and admit to perjury, but he told NBC he would '"rather sit in prison and rot" than admit to a lie he says he didn't commit.
The network obtained a document laying out some of the information prosecutors had obtained, including emails from Stone and Corsi.
In one email on July 25, 2016, Roger Stone told Corsi - a former Washington bureau chief at InfoWars - to 'get to [Assange] at Ecuadorian embassy in London'.
Corsi replied on August 2, saying: 'Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps. One shortly after I'm back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging.'
The third figure Trump may have been referring to is his former campaign chair Paul Manafort.
Trump 'should understand that even dangling a pardon in front of a witness like Manafort is dangerously close to obstruction of justice and would just fortify a claim or a charge of obstruction of justice against the President,' incoming House Judiciary chair Jerold Nadler told CNN Tuesday.
Meanwhile, attorneys representing Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort kept the President's team briefed on what he told the Mueller probe, it has emerged.
Manafort's lawyers have 'repeatedly' reported back to the President's team for the last two months, the New York Times has revealed.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of the president's personal lawyers, confirmed the conversations had taken place but defended them as a valuable insight into the Mueller inquiry on Tuesday.
Legal experts believe the conversations may have been staged as an apparent bid from Manafort, 69, to obtain a presidential pardon or have any potential sentence reduced.
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Manafort (pictured) is facing a jail sentence of up to 10 years on conspiracy charges and eight counts of financial fraud
Trump himself appeared to indicate he had insider knowledge of meetings between Manafort and Mueller on Tuesday, as he tweeted: 'Wait until it comes out how horribly & viciously they are treating people, ruining lives for them refusing to lie.'
And earlier this month he posted: 'The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess.
'They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want.'
Manafort is facing up to 10 years in prison for two conspiracy charges and eight counts of financial fraud.
But despite little being known about the conversations between his lawyer, Kevin Downing, and special counsel Mueller's team, it appears Manafort has not implicated the President in any wrongdoing.
Giuliani said Manafort’s lawyer Kevin M. Downing said prosecutors grilled Manafort over whether the president knew about the June 2016 meeting between his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. and Russian officials, in which they promised to give up compromising information about Hillary Clinton.
'He wants Manafort to incriminate Trump,' Giuliani said of Mueller.
The revelation comes as Manafort was forced to deny meeting with Julian Assange, calling reports that he secretly visited the Wikileaks founder 'totally false.'
Trump's lawyers said Kevin M. Downing (pictured right) told them Manafort was grilled over a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr and Russian representatives
Manafort released a statement on Tuesday, hours afterThe Guardian published a story alleging that the two met at least three times, including once in 2016 around the time he was hired by the president.
'This story is totally false and deliberately libelous. I have never met Julian Assange or anyone connected to him,' Manafort said through a spokesman.
'We are considering all legal options against the Guardian, who proceeded with this story even after being notified by my representatives that it was false.'
The news outlet claimed Manafort allegedly visited Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been holed up since 2012, on three occasions in 2013, 2015 and 2016, citing anonymous sources.
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