After the indictment of Manafort and Gates was revealed on Monday morning, Trump tweeted: “Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. ?”The president added: “...Also, there is NO COLLUSION!”Later, the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, insisted there was no connection between the three men and the Trump campaign. However, Trump himself had announced Papadopoulos’s appointment as a foreign policy adviser in March 2016, describing him as “an excellent guy”. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/ReutersBefore becoming Trump’s campaign manager in the summer of 2016, Manafort had extensive business ties to Ukraine, where he represented prominent pro-Moscow figures. Like Manafort, he worked on the Trump campaign.

Source: The Guardian October 30, 2017 12:18 UTC