“I mean look at how President Trump has protected his friends,” Toobin said. “Look at what his Justice Department has done for Michael Flynn. Look at the way the president intervened to commute Roger Stone’s sentence.”

“This case is very bad news,” Toobin went on. “Almost everybody who goes to trial on federal criminal charges, especially in the Southern District of New York, gets convicted. And a pardon seems like his best chance for getting out of this.”