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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Just Issued Statement on Manafort/Cohen Filings, Says There’s ‘Nothing There’

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On Friday night, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to the back-to-back bombshells of the filings for Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen by claiming that neither memo say much about Trump and implied that the media was trying to create a story about nothing.

In the Paul Manafort memo, Special Counsel Robert Mueller wrote this about the former Trump Campaign chair: “In his interviews with the Special Counsel’s Office and the FBI, Manafort told multiple discernible lies –– these were not instances of mere memory lapses.”

In response, the White House issued a statement claiming “The government’s filing in Mr. Manafort’s case says absolutely nothing about the President.”

The statement continues on: “Once again, the media is trying to create a story where there isn’t one.”

As for the Michael Cohen sentencing memo — where damning statements were made about Individual -1 aka Donald Trump — Sanders said: “The government’s filings in Mr. Cohen’s case tell us nothing of value that wasn’t already known. Mr. Cohen has repeatedly lied and as the prosecution has pointed out to the court, Mr. Cohen is no hero.”

Donald Trump also issued a Twitter statement of his own Friday, reading simply and referring to the Cohen memo: “Totally clears the President. Thank you!”

And Kellyanne Conway’s husband George Conway, had some thoughts on that:

Trump on Friday issued a series of tweets slamming Mueller’s investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, again labeling the probe a “witch hunt” and claiming that there would be a “a major Counter Report to the Mueller Report.”

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