Posted on 08/22/2018 3:39:05 PM PDT by detective
Senate Republicans are warning President Trump that it would be a serious mistake to pardon his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted late Tuesday on an array of fraud charges.
“It would be an enormous mistake and misuse of his power to pardon,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a prominent moderate, told reporters.
Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas), the second-ranking Senate GOP leader, said that pardoning Manafort “would be a mistake.”
Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (S.D.), the third-ranking member of the GOP leadership, said he is not aware of any mitigating circumstances related to Manafort’s case that would warrant a pardon.
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Trump is turning out to be a true hero but he is all by himself with no reliable allies.
Senate leadership needs to be more Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and less John Thune, John Cornyn. This is sickening. We have little to no representation, outside of Donald Trump.
Correct on all counts because this president is a Republican. Democrat Presidents can do whatever the heck they feel like and there is no noise from either party.
The Republican swamp, sure needs to be drained.
Yup....case in point: Mueller & the DOJ helped set up Cohen with the help US Southern District of NY. That’s blatant corruption.
Blackmail
I have a gut feeling the judge in this case is going to let Manafort off with no jail time, this judge KNOWS what the HELL is going on here!!! I am assuming of course the judge is the one issuing the sentence!!!!!
OH NO, not SCHUMER I am sur Trump is just SHAKING in his shoes!!!! LOL, LOL, LOL, Mr. POTUS whatever these feckless A-HOLES tell you to do, you do just the opposite, WE have your back, WE hired you to piss these BASTARDS off in ANYWAY you can!!!! MAGA!!!!!
So the Dems can run a witch hunt to get the President and ruin people’s lives in the process and these slime Repubs warn the President not to make things right. That is the leadership of the Republican Party now. They have zero character, ethics or backbone. Every Fn one of then needs to be thrown out.
Cornyn is an embarrassment to Texas. He is a bottom-dwelling D.C. Swamp creature.
Do it on December 24, 2024....
Flake, Corker, Hatch, Heller, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio, Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Cochran, Collins, Sasse, Kennedy, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Isakson, Johnson, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Gaines, Barasso and Enzi are all Bush League Republicans hell bent on making America into North Mexico.
Is that what Republicans want, that Manafort spends the rest of his life in prison?
-PJ
I’d vote for Susan anyday.
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Of course you would, you’re from New Jersey.
We need fewer progressive Republicans, not more.
Thune needs to go. He’s a rat.
TRUMP will PARDON Manafort when Mueller's stupid witch hunt ends!!!!
I’m a suburban conservative.
You are a New Jersey Republican, no conservative would vote for Susan Collins.
Schumer speaks for most of the senate, unfortunately.
The rinos and neverTrumpers want Trump gone. They all support the mueller coup and want him to continue.
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