LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A juror who voted to convict Paul Manafort and who is also a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump has some advice for Trump if he is considering whether to pardon his former campaign chairman: don’t do it. Paula Duncan is so far the only juror to speak out since Manafort was found guilty of 8 out of 18 counts of financial wrongdoing on Tuesday [8-21-18]…Trump weighed in on Manafort’s plight while the jury was still in deliberations, calling the tax and bank fraud case against him ‘very sad’ and lauding him as a ‘very good person.’ Trump weighed in on Manafort’s plight while the jury was still in deliberations, calling the tax and bank fraud case against him ‘very sad’ and lauding him as a ‘very good person.’”
–Warren Strobel, Nathan Layne, “Manafort juror’s message to Trump: Pardon would be ‘big mistake’,” Reuters, August 24, 2018 4:13 pm