Trump: What’s going on with Paul Manafort, ‘it’s like Al Capone’

Published July 17, 2018 2:24am ET



President Trump on Monday compared federal investigators’ treatment of his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, to that of mobster Al Capone.

Trump noted to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers last week who are accused of hacking into computers and email accounts belonging to the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, when he also mentioned Manafort and his former national security adviser Mike Flynn being charged in the Russia investigation.

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