Pardoning Manafort and firing Mueller won't help Trump

[Wanderfound]

Reminder of Manafort background; I stumbled over this post from a few months ago:

Paul Manafort drops legal team for Russia-Trump investigation

The Trumpeters have openly turned on Manafort, but the undercurrents are hard to read from the outside. Either: The Enquirer story and West Wing leaks were a warning shot at Manafort, forcing him to swap his lawyers (who may have been looking for a deal) with a team more to the Trumpeter’s liking (stonewall, deny and delay instead of deal). Or The Trumpeters have decided to cut Manafort loose and use him as a scapegoat, and the change of lawyers is Manafort moving to a less Trump-loyal f…