US President Donald Trump would make a “terrible mistake” if he pardoned his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort after charges brought as a result of the federal probe into Russian election interference, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said yesterday.“I just think it would be the wrong thing to do and I think it would be a huge political mistake as well,” Rubio said on CNN’s State of the Union.Manafort faces sentencing on his convictions in August of tax and bank fraud charges.In a court filing on Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller said that Manafort lied to investigators about his interactions with …read more
Source: Gulf times
