President Donald Trump said he hasn’t offered his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort a pardon but wouldn’t rule one out, after the convicted felon’s plea agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller fell apart this week.
Manafort’s prosecution was very sad, Trump told reporters as he departed the White House Nov. 29 for the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires. He confirmed that he had said in an interview with the New York Post that the possibility of a pardon is “not off the table.”
“Why would I take it off the table?” he told the Post.
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