Senate’s top Democrat finds Trump’s pardon plan ‘extremely disturbing’
Senator Mark Warner reacts to a Washington Post article that said the president was asking ‘about his power to pardon aides’ in connection to the Russia investigation
Washington — The highest-ranking Democrat on the US Senate intelligence committee said it was "extremely disturbing" if President Donald Trump was contemplating a pardon for aides that could be implicated in an investigation on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Senator Mark Warner was referring to a Washington Post article late on Thursday saying that Trump was consulting advisers "about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself" in connection to the investigation led by special counsel and former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Robert Mueller. Trump’s lawyers were attempting to "corral the probe" and were compiling a list of Mueller’s alleged potential conflicts of interest in order to "stymie his work", according to the Post, which quoted anonymous sources for the article. In a statement, Warner said Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections "was an attack on our democracy. Both the Senate intelligence committee and special couns...
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