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Trump Lawyer Floated Idea Of Pardoning Manafort, Flynn As Mueller Moved In
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Well sort of. Flynn will probably get minimal time (6 months) for copping to one count of lying to the FBI. Manafort is indeed “fucked” because the ingenious special counsel prosecutors have turned a tax evasion case into money laundering. I spoke before on this site about Andrew Weissmann’s history of imaginative applications of the federal criminal code. I’ve long wondered if Trump, oh Dennison, makes it 4 years without being impeached, he would just say fuck it, they’re all pardoned. At that point he would have put the finishing touch on the complete destruction of the Republican party.
Keep the ideas coming! I love a good underdog story like a Cooley grad trying to learn constitutional law on the fly