JARED KUSHNER/MEDIA/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he would never give up information on President Donald Trump or senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, according to newly unsealed texts between the two men in 2017 and 2018. A court unsealed more than 50 pages of texts that show Manafort was scared and defiant and did not think special counsel Robert Mueller would cut a cooperation deal with him because Manafort wouldn’t give up Trump or his family…The texts were released along with the transcript of an April hearing where Judge Amy Berman Jackson was considering whether Manafort or his attorney Kevin Downing had violated a gag order through the communications. Jackson decided to have the lawyers involved in the case determine what, ‘if any,’ portions of the texts and hearing transcript should be publicly released once ‘some portion of the Mueller Report becomes publicly available.’”
–Dan Berman, Marshall Cohen and Caroline Kelly, “Manafort told Sean Hannity in texts he would never give up Trump or Kushner,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 21, 2019 8:06 pm