happen to pardon him would be a big risk for manafort not to take. not to mention that state charges do not apply here. so this would just be for federal pardoning and federal crimes. so in addition to that, remember, manafort s woes go back way before he joined this campaign. tax evasion, all of that, all of his dealings in ukraine and russia go back decades. if anything, one could say that he s possibly more concerned about the consequences of what mueller has dug up about his time there and what that has led up to now, and not wanting to upset people and former business partners that he worked with in ukraine and russia as opposed to just worry about how this impacts the trump campaign administration. i asked about pardons, because of fthe president s thre tweets earlier today, in which he really goes. some of the things he said about this, quote, phony witch hunt, mueller and his anggang of angr