2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is confident that neither his former campaign chairman nor his former national security adviser has damaging information about him to offer prosecutors, a White House lawyer told The New York Times.
‘The president has no concerns in terms of any impact, as to what happens to them, on his campaign or on the White House,’ the lawyer, Ty Cobb, said in an interview on Thursday for The Times’s podcast ‘The New Washington.’
The Justice Department special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is investigating whether anyone close to Mr. Trump worked with Russian operatives to disrupt last year’s presidential election. He has summoned witnesses before a federal grand jury in Washington to gather information about Paul J. Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman; Michael T. Flynn, the retired general and former national security adviser; and other associates of Mr. Trump.
Mr. Manafort has been warned to expect an indictment, raising the prospect that Mr. Mueller will offer him leniency in exchange for incriminating information about Mr. Trump. Mr. Cobb’s remarks echo what those around Mr. Manafort have said: that he has no such information to offer. Mr. Trump has sought to play down the significance of Mr. Manafort’s role with the campaign.”
-Matt Apuzzo, “Trump Unworried About What Former Aides Will Tell Mueller, Lawyer Says,” The New York Times online, Oct. 28, 2017