Thread by @dsamuelsohn

NEWS: Manafort told the Mueller investigators in Oct. 2018 he didn't think Trump would pardon him. That's among the nuggets released today via FOIA to @BuzzFeed & @CNN in a large batch of FBI 302s from the special counsel probe. You can read it all here: ow.ly/mMTj50xM0z8

@BuzzFeed @CNN The Manafort 302 also has an interesting tidbit about why he decided to plead guilty after sizing up the jury pool questionnaire responses before his DC trial. "He thought that between that jury and Judge Jackson, he had no chance at trial," the FBI agent wrote.

@BuzzFeed @CNN Lots of redactions in the FBI 302 for Trump WH adviser Stephen Miller. Here's what pages 1 and 2 look like. Fill in the blanks.

@BuzzFeed @CNN The Stephen Miller pages aren't all blacked out. We see where he recalled Trump being frustrated in Comey's 3/20/17 testimony on the Hill about there being an investigation and then a few deets on the May 17 Bedminster visit/strategizing ahead of the Comey firing.

@BuzzFeed @CNN Rob Porter FBI 302 is also heavily redacted & what's left is largely word-for-word in the Mueller report. That includes Trump asking Porter to "feel her out" w/ respect to DOJ then-No. 3 Rachel Brand replacing Sessions as AG & saying it was time to "clean house" at DOJ.

@BuzzFeed @CNN Here are some screenshots from the Porter FBI 302 pages related to my last tweet. You can read it all for yourself here: buzzfeed.egnyte.com/dl/rrpLVVjqY5/

@BuzzFeed @CNN Michael Cohen 302 from Sept 2018 full of redactions too but notes Trump-Cohen conversations related to Trump Tower Moscow and Cohen traveling to Russia's capital. Also how Trump thought his campaign was the "greatest informercial" ever in history.