Paul Manafort said he used Fox News host Sean Hannity to receive backchannel messages from President Trump while prosecutors investigated him for financial crimes, according to newly released memos from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, the Daily Beast reports.
Hannity Was Manafort’s Backchannel to Trump
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