While dodging definitively answering whether he’d consider pardoning Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump again expressed sympathy for his former campaign manager, who could spend the rest of his life behind bars after special counsel Robert Mueller dropped the plea deal with Manafort, alleging Manafort lied to the federal investigators.
“It’s very sad what’s happened to Paul, the way he’s been treated, I’ve never seen anybody treated so poorly,” he told reporters.
Trump says it's "very sad what's happened to Paul," his former campaign manager pic.twitter.com/1ktIY2eneF
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) November 29, 2018
It’s hard to measure but we’re certainly at a point now where almost nothing he says maps to reality in any meaningful way.
It smells like a day that will require its own chapter.
FlashbackDec. 2017: Barack Obama Reflects on Leaving the Presidency:
One of the metaphors that was used for the presidency is that you are a relay runner. There is a sense sometimes in any position of leadership that you by yourself do certain things and then it’s over, but I always viewed it as taking the baton from a whole range of people who had come before me, some of whom had been heroic, some of whom had screwed up.
But wherever you were in the race, if you ran hard and you did your best, and then you were able to pass that baton off successfully, with the country or the world a little bit better off than when you got there, then you could take some pride in that, and I think that we were able to do that.
Trump is like a steaming pile of crap.
Everyone he touches, you can’t get the stink off afterwards.