Donald Trump actually said...

"Paul Manafort is a nice guy. But, you know, he worked for me for a very short period of time. Literally for like, what, a couple of months?"

"Manafort has nothing to do with our campaign."

"If we don't get border security after many, many years of talk within the United States, I would have no problem doing a shutdown. It's time we had proper border security. We're the laughingstock of t..."

"Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty & contentious business relationship, I turned him down to..."