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Trial Balloon · Ep. 194: What Just Happened?

Possible Pardons Loom for Former Trump Aides

December 9, 2019 · 7:13 am ET · Leave a Comment

Politico: “Roger Stone’s supporters are making a pardon pitch everywhere President Trump looks: Fox News, InfoWars, Twitter, even the White House driveway. Michael Flynn abruptly hired a bombastic lawyer who spouts Trump-friendly theories about FBI duplicity that are widely seen as a pardon play.”

“Paul Manafort has kept himself on Trump’s radar from behind bars in a federal penitentiary by feeding the president’s personal attorney a conspiracy theory that Ukraine, and not Russia, interfered in the 2016 campaign.”

“In any other administration, and in any other time, it’d be shocking to consider that three men with such deep personal ties to the president might get their legal troubles expunged in an election year — not to mention from a president facing impeachment proceedings. But this is not any other administration.”

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