Prosectors expect former president to try to invoke executive privilege to prevent his ex-officials from speaking
In his forthcoming memoir, the former Trump campaign managerdescribes his travels through the US prison system after being convicted on tax charges – including a stay in a Manhattan facility alongside the financier and sex offenderPhotograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters
Manafort also writes that during one transfer between facilities, at a private airfield “somewhere in Ohio”, the sight of “prisoners … being herded in long lines and then separated into other buses and on to … transport planes … reminded me of movies about the Holocaust”., will be published in the US next month. The Guardian obtained a copy.
Manafort’s book is not all quite so startling. But he does make the surprise admission that in 2020, he indirectly advised Trump’s campaign while in home confinement as part of a seven-year sentence – advice he kept secret as he hoped for a presidential pardon. “I didn’t want anything to get in the way of the president’s re-election or, importantly, a potential pardon,” Manafort writes.
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