Manafort juror says one female holdout kept him from being convicted on all 18 counts
President Trump, like The Federalist, is looking on the bright side of his former campaign chairman's conviction on eight of 18 charges of federal financial crimes.
Duncan, who described herself as an avid Trump supporter — "Every day when I drove, I had my Make America Great Again hat in the backseat," she told Fox News — was not the holdout. "Finding Mr. Manafort guilty was hard for me, I wanted him to be innocent, I really wanted him to be innocent, but he wasn't," she said. But she was sympathetic to the defense's closing argument. "Certainly Mr. Manafort got caught breaking the law, but he wouldn't have gotten caught if they weren't after President Trump," Duncan said, describing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation as a "witch hunt to try to find Russian collusion."
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