Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump said he feels "badly" for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was sentenced to additional prison time on Wednesday and charged with new crimes in New York.

"I feel badly for him," Trump said, describing Manafort's legal troubles as a "very sad situation."

Manafort was ordered Wednesday to serve an additional 43 months on federal conspiracy charges , bringing his total sentence between two federal courts to 7.5 years in twin cases stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson told Manafort that, despite his apologies to the courtroom, his lawyers' arguments about the absence of any charges directly linked to collusion in the 2016 election were "just one more thing that's inconsistent with the notion of any genuine acceptance of responsibility."

In a plea cut in September 2018, Manafort admitted to money laundering, tax fraud and illegal foreign lobbying connected to his years of lucrative work for Ukrainian politicians, as well as defrauding banks to supplement his income with cash through mortgages.

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