Trump maintains that the Manafort trial has nothing to do with him, which, on its face, is completely true. He also argues that Manafort was only his campaign manager for a very short period of time, which isn’t.
If you accept his statements as true, then why is he going ballistic about the case and demanding that Sessions immediately fire Mueller–something he knows isn’t going to happen, given that Sessions’ one slightly redeeming quality is his sense of professional ethics? Why doesn’t he just ignore the trial if it has no legal implications for him?
It’s a question with significant ramifications. One hopes Mueller answers it for us.