Trump pardons Paul Manafort

President Trump pardoned his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on December 23, 2020, erasing an 81-month federal prison sentence for bank fraud, tax fraud, and failure to disclose foreign lobbying activity. Manafort had been convicted in two separate jurisdictions after trials; he later withdrew his cooperation agreement with Mueller after prosecutors accused him of lying to investigators. The pardon eliminated accountability for conduct that included sharing polling data with a Russian intelligence-linked associate.