Updated at 6:15 p.m. ET
President Trump asked his attorney general to stop Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation Wednesday morning, as the first trial stemming from that investigation entered its second day.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, is on trial in Alexandria, Va., for bank and tax fraud charges, not, as Trump noted in a Twitter thread Wednesday morning, for “collusion.”
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