Rubio: It'd be a "terrible mistake" for Trump to pardon Manafort

“I believe it’d be a terrible mistake,” Rubio said on “This Week” Sunday. “Pardons should be used judiciously. They’re used for cases with extraordinary circumstances.”…

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“I don’t believe that any pardons should be used with relation to these particular cases, frankly,” Rubio told Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz. “Not only does it not pass the smell test, I just think it undermines the reason why we have presidential pardons in the first place, and I think, in fact, that if something like that were to happen, it could trigger a debate about whether the pardon powers should be amended given these circumstances, so I hope that they don’t do that. It would be a terrible mistake if they did.”

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