FBI Special Council Robert S. Mueller III, Michael Cohen, and Paul Manafort
It's been quite a week for the FBI investigation into President Trump and
Russia's interference in the 2016 elections, with two news stories emerging
this week regarding the investigation that had otherwise been quiet for a
while.
Boiled down, both Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen had fibbed to the FBI
during the course of its investigation.
For Manafort, it could mean his deal with federal prosecutors is in
jeopardy, because prosecutors charge he lied to investigators even after
having reached a plea agreement. 1
Cohen, on the other hand, pled guilty to
lying to Congress, saying that he was trying to keep his story aligned with
what Mr. Trump was telling the news.
President Trump commented on Cohen this morning, calling him "weak" and
saying that he was out to save his own skin. According to The Washington
Post, the president is identified as "Individual 1" in Cohen's guilty
plea.2
The same report characterized the president as "a central figure of [the]
probe into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with the Russian government
during the 2016 campaign."