In an Oval Office interview with the New York Post, President Donald Trump admitted that a potential pardon for his former campaign manager Paul Manafort is "not off the table."
"It was never discussed, but I wouldn’t take it off the table," he told the newspaper from his hometown. "Why would I take it off the table?”
During the interview, Trump also claimed special counsel Robert Mueller coached Manafort, his former confidante Roger Stone and associate Jerome Corsi to lie.
“If you told the truth, you go to jail,” the president said. "“You know this flipping stuff is terrible. You flip and you lie and you get – the prosecutors will tell you 99 percent of the time they can get people to flip. It’s rare that they can’t."
Trump claimed the United States is once again experiencing "McCarthyism" and wondered whether the investigation will go on for the rest of Mueller's life.