Sought his lawyers' advice on pardoning Manafort

[struggle4progress]

By Carol D. Leonnig
August 23 at 4:59 PM

President Trump asked his lawyers several weeks ago for their advice on the possibility of pardoning Paul Manafort, his lawyer said Thursday.

The subject of pardoning Manafort came up as Trump’s former campaign chairman faced multiple charges of bank fraud and tax evasion in an Alexandria court and the president was expressing his anger at how federal prosecutors had "beat up" and mistreated Manafort, Trump attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said in an interview ...

... Giuliani said he and .. Sekulow advised waiting to see whether Mueller .. accuses the president of trying to block a federal probe of .. contacts with Russians ...

Giuliani said he and Sekulow provided their advice to delay any possible pardons for people linked to the Mueller probe ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sought-his-lawyers-advice-weeks-ago-on-possibility-of-pardoning-manafort-but-they-counseled-against-it-giuliani-says/2018/08/23/17dce5c6-a70a-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b7dfc82356fc

[MaryMagdaline]

1. So basically the advice was

“let’s wait to see if he implicates you?”