Notwithstanding that Rick Gates pled guilty today, I continue to maintain my innocence, i had hoped and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to prove our innocence. For reasons yet to surface he chose to do otherwise.

Paul Manafort

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While I can not undo the past, I can ensure that the future will... by Paul Manafort

While I can not undo the past, I can ensure that the future will be very different.

I am sorry for what I have done and for all the activities that h... by Paul Manafort

I am sorry for what I have done and for all the activities that have gotten us here today.

I don't expect the sentence I'm about to announce to meet with everyone's approval, i don't sit to do it that way. I sit to impose a just sentence, and I have to satisfy Paul Manafort about it.

One of my friends says we have a criminal justice system that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent, and there are people from neighborhoods like mine in America.

To say I have been humiliated and ashamed would be a gross unders... by Paul Manafort

To say I have been humiliated and ashamed would be a gross understatement.

To say that I feel humiliated and ashamed would be a gross unders... by Paul Manafort

To say that I feel humiliated and ashamed would be a gross understatement.

Rick Gates had his hand in the cookie jar and couldn’t let his bo... by Paul Manafort

Rick Gates had his hand in the cookie jar and couldn’t let his boss find out.

No, I'm not above the law. I never want anybody to be above the law. But the pardons are a very positive thing for a president. I think you see the way I'm using them, and yes, I do have an absolute right to pardon Paul Manafort. But I'll never have to do it because I didn't do anything wrong.

And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said 'you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won,'.

Like many companies doing business internationally, my company was paid via wire transfer, typically using clients' preferred financial institutions and instructions.

I worked with Oleg Deripaska almost a decade ago representing him on business and personal matters in countries where he had investments. My work for Mr. Deripaska did not involve representing Russian political interests.

There is nothing of my business activities to investigate. There is no FBI investigation and NBC even admitted that there is no [c]riminal investigation.

It is an attempt by them to take the focus off of the FBI's announcement of last Friday on the FBI's renewed interest in the Clinton email scandal and the WikiLeaks release of DNC and Clinton campaign emails, there is nothing of my business activities to investigate. There is no FBI investigation and NBC even admitted that there is no [c]riminal investigation.

The simplest answer is the truth: I am a campaign professional. It is well known that I do work in the United States and have done work on overseas campaigns as well.

Once again, the New York Times has chosen to purposefully ignore facts and professional journalism to fit their political agenda, choosing to attack my character and reputation rather than present an honest report.

Besides running against Hillary Clinton, [Trump] is running against the media, there was a debate that could have been had there. Instead, the media chose to take the Clinton campaign narrative and go on attack on Donald Trump. Trump, in the course of this week, was very substantive.

We raised over $132 million in the last two months, we're organized in all 50 states. We have been in the battleground states every day this month, including Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida multiple times. … We are starting to get traction in those states.

Instead, you took an aside that the Clinton narrative told you was something, Mr. Trump told you he didn't mean, and you played it out for two days.

This is the first I ’m hearing of that. by Paul Manafort

This is the first I ’m hearing of that.

Paul Manafort stressed that the campaign has now installed a director in every state as it pushes forward to November. Newly released fundraising numbers also show Donald Trump and the GOP raised $ 80 million in July, marking a surge in fundraising compared with past months – and drawing close to the combined $ 90 million raked in by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats last month. The campaign is in good shape.