'What was he thinking?': Mueller’s office accuses former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of witness tampering in new court filing

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• Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, attempted to tamper with potential witnesses, according to the special counsel Robert Mueller.
• Mueller asked the judge overseeing Manafort's case to revoke or revise an order releasing Manafort ahead of his trial.
• Manafort is accused of attempting to communicate via phone and encrypted messaging with two people associated with a pro-Ukraine group of former European politicians who were involved in Manafort's lobbying activities.
• The communications were "in an effort to influence their testimony and to otherwise conceal evidence," according to the FBI.

The special counsel Robert Mueller submitted a new court filing on Monday asking a judge to revoke or revise an order releasing Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, ahead of his trial.

The reason, according to the filing, was that Manafort attempted "to tamper with potential witnesses" while out on bail and thus violated the conditions of his release.

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