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Special counsel. Is he hoping for a pardon from President Trump . Not only is he not hoping for, he would not accept a pardon. We all knew that this was going to be used as a hush money kind of payment from Campaign Finances. You knew at the time . We knew. The conviction of Paul Manafort is another blow to President Trump and a boost for Special CounselRobert Mueller. Mr. Manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. He is evaluating all of his options at this point. Its a bad day for the president and im sure he understands that. It looks like manafort and cohen only have more to say, o ....
From a prosecutor s perspective. everyone is playing the pardon game and no better intersection of politics and criminal justice than a pardon. first we saw downing the lawyer for manafort basically going to the microphone and unleashed this mercenary begging for a pardon, totally misleading statement about oh, two judges have said no collusion, not at all what the judge said. the timing of the d.a. in manhattan announcing these judges minutes after the sentence really smacks of a political move by the manhattan d.a. and you re exactly right. in any normal case you get in the room, the feds, the state and the county level people and you do what we call deconflict. who has the best case? let s all sort of share evidence and get behind the one prosecution. this idea of serial prosecution one after the other i don t like is a former prosecutor and kara s right. this is not necessarily going to pardon proof anything because manafort will have a real double ....
He s facing he s in jail. he s facing jail time. but notably, he didn t testify and his defense was the government didn t meet their burden. those are both very consistent with post-conviction cooperation. but once he goes to trial again, i do not think that there s really going to be an opportunity for him to cooperate. and notably, what was interesting yesterday is his defense attorney, after the verdict came down, came out of the courtroom and unlike most defense attorneys who say we re going to appeal, we have a lot of our options and we re going to pursue them through the appellate courts, he instead said, we re going to evaluate our options, which is a very different sentiment than we re going to appeal. so in the next three weeks or so i would imagine we will know whether or not paul manafort is going to cooperate or whether, as i ve been saying for quite a while, he s really waiting out the pardon game and looking for a pardon from the president. and as you just pointed out ....
Manafort s lawyer when he got out of court yesterday did not say as many defense lawyers do, we will appeal this, we have considering all his options. we are evaluating our options which indicates they re thinking about a lot of things. i thought for a long time that manafort is playing the pardon game in part because there s no other sensible rational to choosing to have two trials. it only benefits the government and so when you start to see donald trump s tweets and statements about you re a good guy and he s treated unfairly which mirrors some of the statements he made about other people that he s pardoned, the writing is quite obviously on the wall. as to flynn and papadopoulos, we re starting to see a little bit more into the recesses of mueller s investigation, not the substance but some of the background stuff. first of all, papadopoulos apparently attempted to cooperate, but was unsuccessful because he didn t tell the truth. so he s wiped out. he s lower level so he s no ....