Trumps stuck on this one…
Can’t pardon Manafort because then Manafort can’t plead the fifth in testimony if called to testify to Congress.
At the same time he has to keep Pauly thinking a pardon is coming, so he wont flip.
I suspect that Trump will commute his sentence(s) after the DC trial.
Oh… he’s just ITCHING to flex those Pardon Muscles and show he’s the BMIC (*Big Mac In Charge)!.. Damned if he does/ Damned if he dont. Me? I double dog dare him!!
Or, Trump may be waiting and hoping that Manafort becomes “permanently separated” from his family.
He’s waiting on that delivery of novichok from his good friend Vlad.
Like with the Hacking, Trump may just openly ask Russia to take care of it…
It’s ALWAYS someone else’s fault that you are s failure as a human being isn’t it Donnie? You’ve been singing this tune since military school.
Remember Trump crowing that Mueller’s team couldn’t get a conviction on 10 of the counts?
“A juror in the trial of Paul Manafort said Wednesday that all but one of the jurors wanted to convict President Trump’s former campaign chairman on every charge he faced …”
Yes, and even the Trump supporting juror who went on Fox and was critical of the prosecution thought he was guilty on all counts.
Sadly, this is incorrect. There are always state crimes that he could implicate himself in. As such, he could still assert his fifth amendment privilege. I say this as a defense attorney so I have some experience here.
Something I haven’t seen mentioned is that Trump isn’t the only one that can give a presidential pardon…the NEXT president can also. So, Cohen or Manafort can go full flip on Trump and then maybe go to jail for a bit, then rewarded for his loyalty to the country over Trump by a presidential pardon in 2019…
“He’s a wonderful guy. I barely knew him though.”
This just in:
A Fox News poll released this week found that 59 percent of registered voters approve of Mueller’s investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign in the 2016 election while 37 percent disapprove.
That is up from 48 percent approval in the same poll in July and slightly above the same level of support of 55 percent that the poll found in June.
A Fox poll! Things are indeed getting interesting!
It is quite complex. Were he to pardon him, it would heavily impact the republicans in November, and everyone is telling him not to do that.
But even if he did it, weakening himself (and raising the risk immensely that Meuller drops the dime on him or congress actually does something) Manaford would be compelled to talk, and would likely face state charges of some kind (which is what the NY folks like Cohen faced with Barbara Underwood on their tail).
Currently Trump and his co-obstructer of justice Rubes are just sending signals to people to “hang on” and “hope for the best” we are thinking about pardons…
Wondering if this obstinate juror will be spending a lot of time in a new vacation dacha on the charming Black Sea coast the coming summer?
Preshtidient Skanky should add sleazy Mitt Romney to his enemies list. The Romney family was engaged in pretty horrific financial crimes that destroyed peoples lives.
Hey Dotard, how about establishing some tariff’s on so-called climate change?
Sea level rise already causing billions in home value to disappear
That’s a really big move.
I hope it holds, though it does mean that Trumpp would start pounding even harder on immigrants and Iran.
Nah, didn’t deliver on 44%.