Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, insists that indictments against Paul Manafort and Richard Gates have “nothing to do with the president’s campaign or campaign activity.” Administration officials dismiss the alleged criminal activity by Mr. Manafort, formerly President Trump’s campaign chairman, as being merely about money-laundering and Ukraine — but not Russia, the focus of the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel.
Trump’s Russia ties
Viktor Yanukovych
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Evelyn Farkas: With Manafort, it really is about Russia, not Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin and then - his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych talk in Kyiv on July 27, 2013.
