Analysis: Paul Manafort tried to send a message to Trump. Manhattan’s DA may have rendered it moot.
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 13 at 1:20 PM Lawyers for Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, went out of their way to send one specific message to anyone listening, specifically to Manafort’s former boss: There was no proven evidence of collusion in the charges Manafort faced.
After Jackson’s sentence was imposed, Manafort’s attorney Kevin Downing spoke briefly to reporters outside the courthouse. What sort of appreciation? Well, the crimes for which Manafort has been sentenced were all federal crimes, and Trump has the power to pardon any person who has committed federal crimes. He has shown willingness to leverage that power, too, including for his political allies. Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, for example, received one of Trump’s first pardons, with Trump going on to effuse about Arpaio’s character.
“No one is beyond the law in New York,” Vance is quoted as saying. You can almost hear him punctuating that “in New York.”
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