President Donald Trump said he’s never discussed — or considered — pardoning Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who pleaded guilty and made a deal…
President Donald Trump said he’s never discussed — or considered — pardoning Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who pleaded guilty and made a deal with Russia investigation special counsel Robert Mueller. But the president also said this week that it’s an idea he hasn’t dismissed doing, either.
The comments from the president come in the same week that it was revealed that Manafort — whose plea deal is under re-consideration by the special counsel after it was discovered he’d been lying to investigators — also had his lawyer briefing Trump’s legal team on what Mueller’s investigation had been asking him about, per previous reporting from the Inquisitr .
It was a revelation that Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, suggested was happening. “[Mueller] wants Manafort to incriminate Trump,” Giuliani said.
