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Lenient sentence repeating the president's mantra of no collusion was no accident. it was a deliberate appeal for a pardon. in deciding manafort's, judge ts elliot called it excessive and claims manafort lived and otherwise blameless life. his resume called it a picture and he worked for dictators and a bid for human rights leader, like ferdinand marcos he tried to bolster after decades of his brutal rule. when it was light on cash. manafort turned to a russian oligarch and manafort never appeared to repay according to witness testimony at his trial. later he built close ties to the kremlin an...