By Devan Cole
CNN
December 9, 2018
Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday that he doesn’t think President Donald Trump should grant a pardon to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, calling such a move “a mistake.”
“It would be a mistake,” Rubio, R-Florida, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” when asked about the possibility. “And I would strongly counsel against it. I don’t think that — in my view, the presidential pardon power was not created for these sorts of purposes.”