Two seemingly conflicting developments involving the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Russia have left legal experts puzzling.A set of leaked questions for President Donald Trump indicates that special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors are eager to ask the president about efforts Manafort may have made to seek Russian assistance in electing Trump to the White House in 2016.Manafort’s defense team, however, insisted on Monday that it had been told there were no intercepts of the veteran political consultant communicating with Russian officials.“Those two facts don’t sit comfortably together,” said Paul Rosenzweig, a fellow with the R Street Institute think …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition
