President Trump has maintained that he didn’t collude with Russia during his 2016 bid for the White House. New information, inadvertently released in an improperly redacted court filing on Tuesday, makes clear that his campaign manager, Paul Manafort, probably did.
That puts Trump, who had previously defended Manafort and even considered pardoning him, in a tight spot with only one real option: distancing himself from his former ally and pleading innocence to Manafort’s shady dealings abroad.
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