Article snippet: A federal judge has released messages that appear to show former Trump campaign chairman MORE in 2017 and 2018. The logs, which date back to mid-July 2017, show Manafort and a television host named “Sean” leveling repeated attacks on Mueller’s team of prosecutors. They also discuss Manafort’s legal representation, political attacks against Trump and content that appears to come from Hannity’s Fox News evening show. The messages continued up until early June 2018, before Manafort was convicted of bank and tax fraud in the Eastern District of Virginia and before he pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s investigation –– a deal that ultimately fell apart when a judge ruled Manafort had lied to the special counsel’s team about multiple subjects. The names of the two men are first redacted in the documents. But logs of the later messages, while blurry, show their names. Hannity tweeted in response to the messages' release Friday that his view of Mueller's investigation and treatment of Manafort "were made clear every day to anyone who listens to my radio show or watches my TV show." The Hill has also reached out to Manafort’s attorneys for comment. The conversation logs released Friday begin roughly two months after Mueller’s appointment as special counsel, and continue up to early June 2018. In the initial chats, Manafort and Hannity discuss the FBI raid on Manafort’s home, and Hannity repeatedly expresses sympathy and offers support to the former Trum... Link to the full article to read more