In a tweet on Monday, Donald Trump said Paul Manafort’s alleged crimes were “years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign.”
Our ruling
Trump said the allegations against Manafort involved crimes committed years ago. Most of the counts in the indictment detail Manafort’s money laundering efforts dating back to 2006. But that deception involving foreign bank accounts and misleading lenders, prosecutors said, extended until as late as October 2016.
By March of that year, Trump had named Manafort to oversee the Republican National Convention.
The charges that Manafort made false statements took place after Manafort stepped down from the Trump campaign, but they did take place within the past year.
Trump’s claim puts more of a cushion between him and Manafort than was actually the case.
We rate this statement Mostly False.
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