President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly expressed sympathy for his now- convicted former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is so eager to pardon him that the President is mulling hiring a new White House counsel to circumvent his current one, who is adamantly against the move.
According to a Wednesday Vanity Fair report, current White House counsel Don McGahn is strongly against the pardon, and has been coming to blows Trump over the issue.
Trump has been interested in pardoning Manafort since before the conviction, and warnings about how the pardon would play have not seemed to quash his enthusiasm.
Oh Oh Please
Proceed
Mueller is already 5 moves ahead of you.
Gates already spilled the beans , which is why they said: Plea on the second case? We don’t think so.
Come back when you have something to offer
Plus as an extra added bonus at no additional charge:
Obstruction of justice . Stay quiet and I’ll give you a pardon
JFC on a buttered bagel these fuckers are stupid
I suggest bringing in Rudy and getting rid of that loser McGahn, who continues to insist that he works for the people, not the president.
Trump ran as a “law and order” candidate. I missed the part where pardoning convicted felons was part of the program.
Trump wants to serve the law enforcement community notice they’re wasting their time pursuing cases against people he is close to or has some sort of business/political relationship with. Why the hell bother spending countless hours investigating, indicting and taking to trial someone if you’ve been served notice there’s a pardon awaiting them at the end of the entire ordeal? And those having dealings with Trump will be emboldened to ignore the law, especially if their crimes have some sort of six degrees of separation from him. You think Tom Barrack has any damned reason to obey the laws, any law? You think Peter Thiel gives a shit what the IRS has to say about the way his accountants file his taxes? Why would he? Any prosecution would be treating him “very unfairly” and all be due to his friendship with Trump.
Trump wants a two tier justice system, one for all of us, and another for all his friends. And he’s doing a fine job in achieving it.
I think there’s a ‘with’ missing from that sentence.