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I think the whole Manafort trial is very sad, when you look at what’s going on there. I think it’s a very sad day for our country. He worked for me for a very short period of time. But you know what? He happens to be a very good person. And I think it’s very sad what they’ve done to Paul Manafort.
— President Donald Trump, in remarks given at the White House to reporters about his former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s bank and tax fraud trial. The jury in Manafort’s trial is in its second day of deliberation, after asking Judge T.S. Ellis to define “reasonable doubt.” When asked whether he’d pardon Manafort, Trump said, “I don’t talk about that now.”
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