Trump not to ‘survive’ Manafort testimony, says Obama's ethics chief
US President Donald Trump will not "survive" the upcoming testimony by his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, says former President Barack Obama's ethics chief.
Manafort has pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
"He's not going to survive Manafort's testimony," Norm Eisen told ABC on Sunday. "I think there’s a substantial possibility that this evidence that Manafort is offering will implicate somebody up the chain… Who is up the chain from Paul Manafort, who was the chair of the Trump campaign?"
Former Obama chief ethics lawyer @NormEisen says he believes this is "not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning for Donald Trump."
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) September 16, 2018
"We have seen the new chapter. He's not going to survive Manafort's testimony," he adds https://t.co/Qtasc7GudN #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/371R1yMmSm
Federal charges against Trump’s former campaign chairman include money laundering and lobbying for a pro-Russia group in Ukraine.
"This had absolutely nothing to do with the President or his victorious 2016 Presidential campaign," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. "It is totally unrelated."
There are also speculations that the Republican president would use his pardoning powers.
"The pardon will only ... hurt Trump," Eisen said. "It will only dig the hole deeper."
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