Trump sticks to the script following Manafort convictions, Cohen charges

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President Trump stuck to the script Tuesday night, supporting West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s Senate bid and mostly tuning out the legal travails of his former associates.

The president touched on his usual campaigning points, promising to “build a wall,” to “support ICE,” to promote “fair” trade and pressed the benefits of the 2017 tax reform bill. As he often does, Trump called special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign a “witch hunt” and promised there is “no collusion” after the probe’s first convictions.

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