Lindsey Graham: Trump Pardoning Manafort Would Be Seen as ‘Political Disaster’

Senator Lindsey Ghaham is once again advising President Donald Trump against doing something disastrous.

Paul Manafort got sentenced again today, followed by an indictment in Manhattan, and the issue of whether Trump could pardon him came up.

Trump himself didn’t say much about the idea when asked, but Graham told reporters it would be a terrible idea:

.@LindseyGrahamSC says he would advise Trump not to pardon Manafort, says it would be “seen as a political disaster”

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) March 13, 2019

Sen. Lindsey Graham: “Pardoning Manafort would be seen as a political disaster for the President. There may come a day down the road, after the politics have changed that you’d want to consider an application of him like everybody else, but now would be a disaster.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 13, 2019

Legal analysts today noted that even if Trump does pardon Manafort, the New York indictment is “pardon-proof.”

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