Thursday, September 26, 2019

Trump, Giuliani, and Manafort: The Ukraine Scheme | by Murray Waas | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books


Trump, Giuliani, and Manafort: The Ukraine Scheme | by Murray Waas | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
by Murray Waas

New information in this story suggests that these two, seemingly unrelated scandals, in which the House will judge whether the president’s conduct in each case constituted extra-legal and extra-constitutional abuses of presidential power, are in fact inextricably linked: the Ukrainian initiative appears to have begun in service of formulating a rationale by which the president could pardon Manafort, as part of an effort to undermine the special counsel’s investigation.

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