When Robert Mueller handed down indictments to Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and George Papadopolous earlier this week, sending President Trump’s White House scrambling for a cohesive message, Trump sought advice from his former senior advisor, Steve Bannon — who then told Trump to “get serious,” according to an interview in Vanity Fair.
Mueller is reportedly gearing up to interview West Wing aides, and Bannon wants Trump to lawyer up so that the President had a check on his legal team’s “unchecked power.” Bannon told Trump as much in a series of phone calls earlier in the week.
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