The White House has denied a report claiming that a lawyer for President Trump raised the prospect of pardoning former advisers Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort as the FBI special counsel was building cases against them. Dowd, who announced his resignation last week, denied the claims to the Times: “There were no discussions. Period.”“I have only been asked about pardons by the press and have routinely responded on the record that no pardons are under discussion or under consideration at the White House,” White House lawyer Ty Cobb said in a statement. At the White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders responded to questions about the article by referring back to Cobb’s statement. The Times reported that it was not clear if Dowd had discussed the prospect of pardons with President Trump, but that Trump had asked about the extent of his pardoning power in a meeting last year with lawyers from the White House Counsel’s Office.

Source: Fox News March 28, 2018 19:23 UTC