President Trump said he’s not worried about former campaign chairman Paul Manafort cooperating in the special counsel’s Russia probe as “long as he tells the truth.”

“I’m not, because if he’s honest, and he is, I think he’s going to tell – as long as he tells the truth, it’s 100 percent,” the president said Wednesday as he left the White House en route to North and South Carolina where he was going to survey damage from Hurricane Florence.

Manafort pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud charges last Friday in a plea deal with prosecutors on Robert Mueller’s team and agreed to “cooperate fully and truthfully” with the investigation.

Trump was asked if he would pardon Manafort.

“I don’t want to talk about it now,” he said in his first comments since Manafort reached the agreement.

Trump went on to talk about the longtime political operative’s history and claimed that Manafort was with his campaign for a “short period of time.”

“He did a good job. I was, you know, very happy with the job he did. And I will tell you this: I believe that he will tell the truth. And if he tells the truth, no problem,” Trump said.

Manafort, who was also found guilty in federal court in Virginia in August of eight counts of financial fraud stemming from his work with a pro-Russian politician, joined the campaign in March 2016 and left in August 2016.

During his stint with the campaign, he attended the June 9 meeting at the Trump Tower attended by Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and a Kremlin-connected lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.