As Trump was leaving, the press asked him if he would pardon Manafort.........

[riversedge]

I think Trump looks bloated---or has gained weight.






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9m9 minutes ago

Asked by @PeterAlexander if he would pardon Paul Manafort, President Trump says “I don’t talk about that now,” and asserts that Manafort, who worked for the Trump campaign for 5 months, “worked for me for a very short time” and “he happens to be a very good person.”

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Not fit to be an American, let alone president. Vile prick and one of the worst humans alive.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. "He worked for me for a very short time."

He was your campaign manager, asshole.

[dalton99a]

6. "Unlike Aretha Franklin who worked for me for a very, very long time"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. He tries to bask in the reflection of others' fame and popularity.

Aretha Franklin hadn’t ventured far from her hometown of Detroit for three years. But in the final weeks of 1988, the “Queen of Soul” boarded a custom-made bus, forgoing more traditional modes of transport, and set off for Atlantic City.

On short notice, and with little fanfare, she had been booked to perform at Trump’s Castle, a casino opened three years earlier by Donald Trump in the garish Xanadu of sun and slot machines on the Jersey Shore.
....

Trump’s comments proved, as ever, controversial, and not simply because her appearances at his properties hardly amounted to a sustained employment relationship. More pointedly, even if she had worked for him, some asked, what was the relevance of that fact on the day of her death?

“I find it disturbing and sad, and a reflection of his endless narcissism,” said David Ritz, who spent years with Franklin seeking to understand the guarded performer for his 2014 biography, “Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin.” He also worked with Franklin on her 1999 autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/17/aretha-franklin-worked-for-me-claims-trump-did-she/?utm_term=.a7fd7babb5d6

[dalton99a]

9. +1. It's obscene

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Trump is NOT a very fine person.....

Which is why he prefers people like him....Vile, thieving, LIAR.

[magicarpet]

4. The saddest part is and primarily what trDump worries about....

.... what Mueller is doing to Paul Manafort is likely precisely what Mueller intends to do to the criminal conspirator Donald John trDump.

That is what scares the shit out of trDump.

[gratuitous]

5. Manafort "happens to be a very good person"

Who will spend the rest of his natural life in jail.

[MontanaMama]

8. Yikes he is extra orange, isn't he?

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[sinkingfeeling]

10. So you're a very good person if you hide $16 million from taxes?

Guess that's what you do if you "love America".

[2naSalit]

11. In the idiot's reckoning...

that makes him super smart!

[UTUSN]

12. He also said in that very "American innocent" dialect, "He hasn't been convicted of anything!1"

"There's nothing to pardon (yet)!1"

Like he would be doing something like Pardoning based on appropriateness or norms.