Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump weighed in Friday to the sentencing of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort by twisting a federal judge's words to claim that there was no collusion with Russia in the 2016 campaign.

"Both the Judge and the lawyer in the Paul Manafort case stated loudly and for the world to hear that there was NO COLLUSION with Russia," Trump said in a Friday morning tweet.

"The judge said there was no collusion with Russia," Trump later told a gaggle of reporters, before leaving the White House to meet with victims of deadly tornadoes in Alabama.

Facts First: The judge said no such thing. He noted that Manafort wasn't accused of collusion and that the trial focused on unrelated financial crimes. But the judge did not declare that there was no collusion in 2016.

Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced Manafort on Thursday to serve nearly four years in prison for a vast financial fraud scheme. But Manafort "is not before the court for anything having to do with colluding with the Russian government to influence this election," Ellis said.

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