PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Tuesday [11-27-18] lobbed familiar insults and accusations at the special counsel investigation, a day after prosecutors said his former campaign chairman repeatedly lied to investigators in breach of a previous plea agreement. The continuing investigation is a ‘Phony Witch Hunt,’ carried out by a ‘conflicted’ prosecutor and a staff of ‘Angry Democrats,’ the president said in three morning Twitter posts. There was nothing new in the president’s accusations, but they are his first public comments about the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, since the disclosure on Monday that his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, lied multiple times to prosecutors in violation of a plea agreement he struck months ago. Mr. Trump also suggested that he has heard the accounts of witnesses who have been interviewed by the Mueller team.”
–Eileen Sullivan, “Trump Lobs Insults at Special Counsel One Day After Prosecutors Say Manafort Lied,” The New York Times online, November 27, 2018