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    Is Manafort Angling for a Pardon?

    Legal experts call his ongoing talks with Trump about the Mueller probe “extremely unusual.”
    by Natasha Bertrand Nov 29, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Rick Wilking / Reuters

    On September 14, prosecutors for Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed that President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, the convicted felon Paul Manafort, had decided to sign a plea agreement in exchange for a lighter sentence. To those who have been watching the Mueller investigation unfold, the implications of the deal seemed clear: Manafort was going to flip on Trump, and help Mueller get to the bottom of whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to win the 2016 election. But Manafort apparently had other plans.

    On Monday, more than two months after Manafort agreed to cooperate, prosecutors revealed that he has “committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety report on Tuesday raised even more questions about Manafort’s motivations: He apparently never pulled out of a joint defense agreement with Trump, and his lawyer has been providing valuable insights about the inquiry to Trump’s legal team over the past two months, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani told the .

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