Trump hasn’t ‘given a thought’ to pardoning Manafort

Published March 13, 2019 7:41pm ET



President Trump on Wednesday said he has not spent any time considering whether to pardon his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, but he feels “very badly” for him.

“I have not even given it a thought as of this moment,” Trump told reporters during a briefing on drug trafficking on the southern border. “It’s not something that’s right now on my mind.”

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