Giuliani: Trump sees no danger in Manafort plea
By Darren Samuelsohn and Josh Gerstein
POLITICO
September 15, 2018
The prospect of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort cutting a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office to avoid a second criminal trial set to open next week doesn’t concern President Donald Trump or his legal team, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told POLITICO.
“We can see a reason why he might want to do that. What’s the need for another trial?” Giuliani said in an interview late Wednesday. “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.
See also: “Mueller’s Noose Tightens as Trump’s Lawyers Pontificate,” by Larry Klayman