President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE said in a new interview Thursday he doesn’t believe Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg betrayed him by taking an immunity deal in the Michael Cohen investigation.

“100 percent he didn’t,” Trump told Bloomberg News in his first public comments on Weisselberg since news of the immunity deal broke. “He’s a wonderful guy.”

Trump also said the cooperation was related to “a very limited period of time.”

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Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, pleaded guilty earlier this month to eight counts of bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations. He implicated the president in the campaign finance charges, saying Trump directed him to make hush-money payments to women who said they had affairs with Trump. Trump has denied wrongdoing.

News of the immunity deal for Weisselberg rattled the White House after the Wall Street Journal first reported it last week.

Weisselberg has worked for the Trump family for more than four decades dating back to the 1970s, when he was an employee for the late Fred Trump, the president’s father.

He has served as the executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Trump Organization. Since Trump took office, Weisselberg and Trump’s eldest two sons, Donald Trump Jr. Don John Trump'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic requests pardon from Trump: 'Be my hero please' Zaid Jilani discusses Trump's move to cancel racial sensitivity training at federal agencies Trump International Hotel in Vancouver closes permanently MORE and Eric Trump Eric Frederick TrumpJudge orders Eric Trump to comply with New York AG's subpoena before Election Day Eric Trump uses misleading clip to blast Biden for using teleprompter Melania Trump: Ginsburg's 'spirit will live on in all she has inspired' MORE, have controlled the company’s finances.