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Following Paul Manafort's second sentencing, his lead attorney Kevin Downing claimed that Judge Amy Berman Jackson"conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case."
"So that makes two courts," Downing continued."Two courts have ruled no evidence of any collusion with the Russians." Facts First: Neither of the judges ruled on anything relating to collusion. And neither of the judges offered any conclusions about whether there was collusion with Russia in the 2016 campaign. In fact, some hecklers noticed this misstatement during Downing's press conference and fact-checked him on the spot.
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