On Thursday, a federal judge shredded Robert Mueller’s “excessive” sentencing recommendations for Paul Manafort, slapping the former Trump campaign chairman with only about a fifth of the recommended prison sentence. Rather than the 19 to 24 years in prison the special counsel was pushing for, Judge T.S. Ellis III gave Manafort only 47 months, with 9 months already served — amounting to a little over three years in prison.
While Democrats began preemptively warning President Trump against pardoning Manafort, the president weighed in on Manafort’s sentencing Friday morning by pointing out the key takeaway — at least from his perspective.
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