Since he's only saying it because he knows the media will react to it, thus proving they're out to get him, thus proving to his base that he didn't collude. It's the big spin.
In the 3 court filings today Trump was not mentioned at all. All that was said is that Individual 1, who went on to become President of the United States, has committed crimes. It could be Obama or Clinton. Stop jumping to conclusions!
I knew we couldn't trust that Obama! He's a Niger and he wasn't born in Hawaii! Wait...I think I got that wrong.
btw, that's a reference to the Republic of Niger and making fun of how idiots think he was born in Kenya.
Trump calls for Mueller probe to end following Manafort, Cohen court filings Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Saturday that court filings in the Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen cases showed no collusion between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. "We're very happy with what we're reading because there was no collusion whatsoever," Trump told reporters Saturday at the White House before boarding Marine One for the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia. Trump told reporters he has not read the court filings, which detail alleged lies Cohen and Manafort told publicly and to investigators. In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes after being charged by Manhattan federal prosecutors. Those included tax fraud, making false statements to a bank and campaign-finance violations tied to his work for Trump, including payments Cohen made or helped orchestrate that were designed to silence women who claimed affairs with the then-presidential candidate. On Friday, prosecutors from the Manhattan US attorney's office wrote: "In particular, and as Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1." Individual-1 is the term prosecutors have been using to refer to the President. Trump has denied those claims. Asked Saturday if he directed Cohen to commit election-related crimes, Trump firmly said, "No." Trump called special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation a "very one-sided situation." The President also argued that the "last thing I wanted is help from Russia on the campaign" and pivoted to attacking Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. He pointed to the role the law firm working for Clinton's campaign played in funding Fusion GPS for opposition research on him. Fusion GPS is the research firm that hired the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who compiled the Russian dossier on Trump, as a subcontractor. Trump tweeted earlier Saturday morning that it was "time for the Witch Hunt to END," referring to Mueller's investigation. https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/08/politics/donald-trump-manafort-cohen-court-filings/index.html
