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Paul Manafort admits indirectly advising Trump in 2020 but keeping it secret in wait for pardon

Paul Manafort arrives in court in New York in 2019.
Paul Manafort arrives in court in New York in 2019. Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP

Paul Manafort indirectly advised Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign while in home confinement as part of a seven-year sentence for offenses including tax fraud – 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,” Trump’s 2016 campaign manager writes in his new book.

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