President Trump said he was not “angry at anybody” after it was reported Monday that his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and his associate, Rick Gates, were indicted and a campaign foreign policy aide, George Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
During a brief phone call with the New York Times, Trump refuted a report from the Washington Post that described him as “angry at everybody.”
“I’m actually not angry at anybody,” Trump said Wednesday.
Trump told the Times that he is not under investigation and he noted that he was not mentioned in the indictment of Manafort.
“It has nothing to do with us,” he said.
Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, was indicted along with Gates, his associate, by a federal grand jury on Monday on 12 charges, including conspiracy against the U.S., as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
It was also revealed Monday that Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to misleading FBI agents concerning his contacts with Russians.
