Washington: After accusing Democrats who are seeking to investigate his campaign of playing political games, US President Donald Trump on Friday, tweeted, “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!”.
PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 8, 2019
While speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Trump in response to a new probe from the House Judiciary Committee had called it “presidential harassment”.
A day before, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud, far short of what had been expected and recommended by the sentencing guidelines. The sentence imposed by Judge T.S. Ellis III on Thursday was significantly less than the 19 to 25 years Manafort could have received under the advisory recommendations.
Manafort was convicted in 2018 of hiding millions of dollars of income earned through his political consulting in Ukraine.
The charges against him stemmed from an inquiry by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
