Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said he knew he 'had no chance at trial' when he pleaded guilty in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, according to a summary of an interview with investigators that was made public Thursday.
Published Thursday, January 2, 2020 9:00PM ESTPaul Manafort arrives in a New York court, on June 27, 2019. WASHINGTON -- Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said he knew he "had no chance at trial" when he pleaded guilty in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, according to a summary of an interview with investigators that was made public Thursday.
The write-up of the October 2018 interview was among hundreds of pages of heavily redacted documents released by the Justice Department in response to public records lawsuits from BuzzFeed News and CNN. It was the third such disclosure of records, all consisting of summaries of interviews FBI agents and Mueller team members did with witnesses, including key aides and confidants of President Donald Trump.
"Trump said it was a rigged system and signalled the politicization of the Department of Justice," the agent wrote. "They talked about how to use it in their campaign, saying that the fix was in between Loretta Lynch and the Clintons." Comey was fired in May 2017, and the documents released Thursday include statements from multiple witnesses describing both the lead-up to that the decision and the fallout afterward.
Uttam Dhillon, a former White House lawyer and the current acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, told investigators that White House attorneys had warned Trump not to contact Comey directly while he was in his job because "it could create the perception he was interfering with investigations."
Also included in Thursday's disclosure was a write-up of an FBI interview with Jerome Corsi, a conservative writer who was himself scrutinized during Mueller's investigation and told reporters that he had turned down a plea offer.
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