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Republicans warn Trump against Manafort pardon
The Hill ^ | 08/22/18 | Alexander Bolton and Jordain Carney

Posted on 08/22/2018 3:39:05 PM PDT by detective

Senate Republicans are warning President Trump that it would be a serious mistake to pardon his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted late Tuesday on an array of fraud charges.

“It would be an enormous mistake and misuse of his power to pardon,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a prominent moderate, told reporters.

Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas), the second-ranking Senate GOP leader, said that pardoning Manafort “would be a mistake.”

Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (S.D.), the third-ranking member of the GOP leadership, said he is not aware of any mitigating circumstances related to Manafort’s case that would warrant a pardon.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Maine; US: South Dakota; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 115th; manafort; pardon; republicans; trump; trumppardons; uniparty
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To: dware
I worry too, how this will all turn out. Mainly it is the fact that Donald Trump is basically all on his own in a sea of corruption and criminal dishonesty. He has literally an army of filth arrayed against him; and they are clever, cunning, and united in purpose. They will leave no village unscorched if necessary to destroy this administration.

Trump is turning out to be a true hero but he is all by himself with no reliable allies.

61 posted on 08/22/2018 4:25:50 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: detective

Senate leadership needs to be more Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and less John Thune, John Cornyn. This is sickening. We have little to no representation, outside of Donald Trump.


62 posted on 08/22/2018 4:27:24 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: fhayek

Correct on all counts because this president is a Republican. Democrat Presidents can do whatever the heck they feel like and there is no noise from either party.


63 posted on 08/22/2018 4:28:27 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: detective

The Republican swamp, sure needs to be drained.


64 posted on 08/22/2018 4:28:42 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yup....case in point: Mueller & the DOJ helped set up Cohen with the help US Southern District of NY. That’s blatant corruption.


65 posted on 08/22/2018 4:29:25 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: detective

Blackmail


66 posted on 08/22/2018 4:33:27 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: sarge83

I have a gut feeling the judge in this case is going to let Manafort off with no jail time, this judge KNOWS what the HELL is going on here!!! I am assuming of course the judge is the one issuing the sentence!!!!!


67 posted on 08/22/2018 4:34:07 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Electric Graffiti

OH NO, not SCHUMER I am sur Trump is just SHAKING in his shoes!!!! LOL, LOL, LOL, Mr. POTUS whatever these feckless A-HOLES tell you to do, you do just the opposite, WE have your back, WE hired you to piss these BASTARDS off in ANYWAY you can!!!! MAGA!!!!!


68 posted on 08/22/2018 4:37:58 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: detective

So the Dems can run a witch hunt to get the President and ruin people’s lives in the process and these slime Repubs warn the President not to make things right. That is the leadership of the Republican Party now. They have zero character, ethics or backbone. Every Fn one of then needs to be thrown out.


69 posted on 08/22/2018 4:39:30 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: Electric Graffiti
Where were you when Bill Clinton pardoned those terrorists or Obama when he welcomed the disgraced American Soldier's parents in the Rose Garden....Mr. Schumer you are a flaming hypocrite and a disgrace yourself!


70 posted on 08/22/2018 4:42:42 PM PDT by yoe
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To: detective

Cornyn is an embarrassment to Texas. He is a bottom-dwelling D.C. Swamp creature.


71 posted on 08/22/2018 4:46:54 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: detective

Do it on December 24, 2024....


72 posted on 08/22/2018 4:47:05 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: detective

Flake, Corker, Hatch, Heller, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio, Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Cochran, Collins, Sasse, Kennedy, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Isakson, Johnson, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Gaines, Barasso and Enzi are all Bush League Republicans hell bent on making America into North Mexico.


73 posted on 08/22/2018 4:51:39 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: detective
What if President Trump doesn't pardon Manafort, but just commutes his sentence so he doesn't have to spend the rest of his life in prison?

Is that what Republicans want, that Manafort spends the rest of his life in prison?

-PJ

74 posted on 08/22/2018 4:54:57 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I’d vote for Susan anyday.
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Of course you would, you’re from New Jersey.
We need fewer progressive Republicans, not more.


75 posted on 08/22/2018 4:59:28 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: detective

Thune needs to go. He’s a rat.


76 posted on 08/22/2018 5:00:05 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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WTF are these yapping about??!!

TRUMP will PARDON Manafort when Mueller's stupid witch hunt ends!!!!

77 posted on 08/22/2018 5:00:59 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I’m a suburban conservative.


78 posted on 08/22/2018 5:03:24 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

You are a New Jersey Republican, no conservative would vote for Susan Collins.


79 posted on 08/22/2018 5:04:37 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Schumer speaks for most of the senate, unfortunately.

The rinos and neverTrumpers want Trump gone. They all support the mueller coup and want him to continue.


80 posted on 08/22/2018 5:04:51 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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