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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Manafort juror's message to Trump: Pardon would be 'big mistake'
2018-08-25
(Reuters) - A juror who voted to convict Paul Manafort and who is also a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump has some advice for Trump if he is considering whether to pardon his former campaign chairman: don’t do it.

Paula Duncan is so far the only juror to speak out since Manafort was found guilty of 8 out of 18 counts of financial wrongdoing on Tuesday.

"He should absolutely not pardon him. I think it would be a big mistake," Duncan, 54, told Reuters after an on-camera interview on Friday, adding that she believed it would be a mistake from both a moral and a political perspective.

"If President Trump pardons him without him doing any time at all it would look like President Trump was saying it’s OK that you broke the law. It’s not OK to break the law."

Trump weighed in on Manafort’s plight while the jury was still in deliberations, calling the tax and bank fraud case against him "very sad" and lauding him as a "very good person."

Posted by:Besoeker

#10  Or the Manafort/Mueller Bill.
Posted by: ruprecht   2018-08-25 14:34  

#9  Change the tax laws, put in a sunset on how much time can pass before folks go after you for tax issues. Include provisions that future Special Councils can't go after tax records to prevent that being used as a partisan attack.

Call it the Paul Manafort IRS Bill.
Posted by: ruprecht   2018-08-25 14:34  

#8  Pardon? No. Commute the sentence? OK. Can he do that?
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2018-08-25 14:17  

#7  dammit - wrong thread
Posted by: Frank G   2018-08-25 12:12  

#6  Max Boot on Twitter:
"Yet another reason I miss Obama. I don’t recall so much open anti-Semitism and racism online when he was in office. https://twitter.com/suspended52/status/1020583085820252160 …"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-08-25 12:10  

#5  "He should absolutely not pardon him. I think it would be a big mistake," Duncan, 54.....

....going on 14.

Lunch time Paula. There's three ham sammiches with double mayo, a quart of German potato salad and a package of Oreo's on the kitchen island awaiting you. Budweiser in the fridge. SICKUM big girl.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-25 11:53  

#4  If cheating on taxes is such a big deal (and it is) why are all illegals and their employers not paying taxes not being rounded up right now? Oh, that's different. Got it...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-08-25 11:50  

#3  He has already spent months in lockup.
Posted by: Airandee   2018-08-25 05:57  

#2  Leftists are infected with flesh eating bacteria in the brain. Zombies. All of them.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2018-08-25 03:44  

#1  "If President Trump pardons him without him doing any time at all it would look like President Trump was saying it’s OK that you broke the law. It’s not OK to break the law."

Unless your name is Clinton?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-08-25 03:21  

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