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Mueller Quietly Offered Podesta Immunity To Testify in Manafort Case

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Special counsel Robert Mueller has offered Clinton-connected superlobbyist Tony Podesta immunity in order to testify against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

“Tonight we can report exclusively based on two separate sources we spoke to today that Tony Podesta has been offered immunity by Robert Mueller to testify against Paul Manafort,” reported Carlson.

The Daily Caller News Foundation has not independently confirmed the report.

Podesta, whose brother is Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, worked with Manafort’s consulting firm in 2012 on a project to help a Ukrainian non-profit group that supported then-Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych.

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Manafort has been indicted on numerous counts of conspiracy and fraud related to the work, which ended two years before the longtime Republican operative joined the Trump campaign.

Both Manafort and Podesta’s now-defunct lobbying firm, the Podesta Group, retroactively registered in 2017 with the Department of Justice as foreign agents of Ukraine.

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Mueller’s prosecutors informed a federal judge Tuesday in Virginia, where Manafort is set to go to trial, that five witnesses would be granted immunity in order to compel them to testify.

The five witnesses had indicated they would invoke their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

Carlson asserted that Podesta receiving immunity from Mueller reveals an anti-Trump double standard in the special counsel’s probe.

“In other words, for a near identical crime, Bill and Hillary’s friend could skate and emerge completely unscathed while Paul Manafort may rot in jail,” Carlson said.


“Only one of them made the mistake of chairing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.”

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Carlson has previously reported details of Podesta’s involvement in the Mueller probe. He reported in October that Podesta was in the special counsel’s “crosshairs.”

Podesta’s lawyers responded by hitting Carlson with a cease-and-desist order, which The Daily Caller co-founder ignored.

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