A pardon won't save him. He might think a pardon will, but it won't.
See the threads in the next two tweets.
@chou9980
BTW, I suspect that he Manafort entered a plea deal because he wanted to save Trump from a trial just before the midterms. A Manafort trial in October would have hurt the Republicans enormously.
Bottom line, the only way Trump can get way with pardoning his former campaign chair is if he manages to make himself a dictator.
He won't. If he does, pardons will be the least of our worries.