People keep asking about Manafort pardons. Set aside the state crim problem. Starting last Monday, Manafort spoke to Mueller’s team to get a deal. A pardon cannot unring that bell. He can be called as a witness with *immunity* to tell the truth (Pardon doesn’t create immunity)...
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2/ Mueller will get Manafort to a grand jury soon, but Manafort has already proffered key information to get a deal. Note: SDNY hasn’t made a deal with Cohen probably because he hasn’t given them enough reliable info. That suggests Manafort gave up more significant info already.
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Replying to @jedshug
But from Manafort’s POV, what is the downside to a pardon? In other words even if we agree a pardon won’t save him, why wouldn’t he angle for one anyway and then take his chances on state charges down the road?
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Because then the evidence he gave this week implicating himself under 18 USC 951 gets used against him, among other things.
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But so what? I mean, he’s 70. If I’m him, and my options are guaranteed fed term vs chance (even likely chance) that I’ll be state convicted a few years down the road, this is a no brainer.
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Replying to @McDeereUSA @jedshug
I'm not sure I understand your scenario. Trump pardons Manafort for FARA & Money laundering Mueller charges Manafort as a spy in an indictment in which POTUS is co-conspirator in weeks
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The US President - an enemy spy. God. I believe it. I accept it. I know it. But Holy Crap.
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I'm arguing Manafort would be charged as a spy, not Trump. He pretty much could have been in lieu of his FARA charge.
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Dammit.
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