‘He Was Not Paid by the Campaign’
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is dismissing the three people indicted by the FBI in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe as unimportant to the campaign. At one point during Monday’s daily press briefing Huckabee Sanders literally refused to mention that Paul Manafort was the campaign chairman. Another indicted campaign associate, George Papadopoulos, Huckabee Sanders described as an unpaid “volunteer” who was a member of a campaign group that met only once. Papadopoulos, Huckabee Sanders claimed had an “extremely limited” role. He was indicted earlier this month for lying to the FBI, but that indictment was announced just today.
“No activity was ever done in an official capacity,” Huckabee Sanders said of Papadopoulos.
In a stunning moment Huckabee Sanders actually described former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who worked for the campaign for more than five months, as someone who was hired “to handle the delegate process… and he was dismissed not too long after that.”
Manafort was hired in March, promoted to campaign chairman and manager in June, and dismissed in August.
The White House press secretary also insisted the president has “no intention or plan to make any changes in regards to special counsel.”
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