U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign
chairman Paul Manafort will cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's
probe of Russian election meddling as part of a plea deal, prosecutors told a
federal court in Washington on Friday.
Manafort, 69, also pleaded guilty to two criminal
counts, becoming the most prominent former Trump campaign official to plead
guilty in Mueller's investigation.
In a statement, the White House distanced Trump from
the veteran Republican operative who helped get him elected against the odds in
2016.
"This had absolutely nothing to do with the
president or his victorious 2016 presidential campaign," White House
spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said of the Manafort news on Friday. "It is
totally unrelated.”
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