Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons
Democrats are increasingly expressing worries that President Trump may seek to pardon allies convicted or charged in investigations of his campaign and administration in the wake of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s sentencing.
Worries about Trump pardons have long been bandied about by critics of his administration, but the chatter is on the rise in recent weeks.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) signaled Thursday that his panel is interested in whether Trump is dangling pardons to witnesses tied to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation or to the Southern District of New York, which is probing payments made to two women alleging affairs with Trump.
The chatter also comes as questions have been raised over whether former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was approached by the president’s legal team with an offer suggesting the president would grant him a pardon following the FBI’s raid last year of his house and office.
“We’ve seen the president dangle pardons publicly really through much of the course of the investigation,” Schiff told The Hill and CNN.
“We are obviously are deeply interested in all the documents that Mr. Cohen produced and others that we’ve been able to obtain. We would be looking to corroborate the evidence we received and this is very much indeed a big interest of ours,” he added.
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