Manafort's lawyers say that were it not for Mueller's appointment as special counsel, DOJ would have viewed his crimes as fairly minor. Also, "there is no evidence of Russian collusion."

These are the same lawyers who failed to properly redact evidence of Russian collusion in a prior filing, so we should consider the source of this assertion. https://t.co/NeqnFCJIRt

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) February 26, 2019