Posted on 08/24/2018 10:06:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump’s lawyers and a cadre of informal White House advisers claim they’ve convinced him not to pardon Paul Manafort — but White House officials expect the president to do it anyway.
The president’s characterization of his former campaign chairman as a victim and “brave man” is being read by aides as a signal that Trump wants to use his unilateral authority to issue pardons to absolve Manafort, according to eight current and former administration officials and outside advisers.
“Trump is setting it up. He’s referring to the investigation as a ‘witch hunt’ and saying this never would have happened to an aide to Hillary Clinton,” said one former campaign official....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
couldn’t he also commute his sentences?
typical fake news based on anonymous fake sources being spewed by the the typical anti-Trump lying fake stream enemedia ... no need to read or comment further ...
ok. Hard to keep all this stuff straight
Put the pardon in terma of giving Manafort immunity to tell the truth. Why is an immunity deal that is given to criminals seen as noble and necessary, but a pardon is not? Both are political means to a political end. It is just that this corrupt game that prosecutors and the FBI play, by using someone they like, to bring down someone they do not, should never have been the “go to” for the Justice Department. Whether it is John Gotti, or KSM. If you cannot get a conviction without this kind of maneuver, you lose and Liberty wins.
You’re right...the whole thing is corrupt and they’re not even ashamed of it.
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