Prez pardons Stone, Manafort, Jared’s dad

Have yourself a merry little pardon.

President Trump pardoned several of his criminally convicted associates late Wednesday — including former campaign manager Paul Manafort — in an aggressive pre-Christmas effort to undo prosecutions that shadowed his entire time in office.

The latest batch of executive clemencies included a total of 26 pardons and three sentence commutations.

Among the other pardon recipients were Roger Stone, the longtime Trump confidante who already got his three-year prison sentence commuted by the president this summer, and Charles Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law, who spent two years in prison after being convicted of tax evasion and witness tampering in 2005.

On Tuesday, Trump pardoned 15 other people, including George Papadopoulos, another ex-campaign aide convicted as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Manafort, who is two years into a seven-year prison stint for a laundry list of financial crimes uncovered by Mueller’s probe, praised Trump for the pre-Christmas pardon.

“My family and I humbly thank you,” Manafort said in a statement provided by his attorney. “History will record that your presidency accomplished more in four years than any of your modern-day predecessors.”

Manafort’s conviction was the most high-profile one secured by Mueller’s inquiry into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russian operatives who interfered in the 2016 election to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s White House bid. His relatively substantial prison sentence was in part a result of his refusal to cooperate with Mueller’s investigators, including his mysterious unwillingness to explain why he shared internal Trump campaign polling data with an accused Russian spy.

Andrew Wiessmann, the lead Mueller prosecutor on Manafort’s case, was aghast at Wednesday’s pardons.

“The pardons from this president are what you would expect to get if you gave the pardon power to a mob boss,” Weissmann tweeted.

Manafort’s not completely out of the woods; he still faces a state indictment in New York on crimes that cannot be covered by a presidential pardon.

“This action underscores the urgent need to hold Mr. Manafort accountable for his crimes against the people of New York as alleged in our indictment, and we will continue to pursue our appellate remedies,” said Danny Frost, a spokesman for Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr., who’s leading that prosecution.

Stone was convicted of obstructing Mueller’s investigation and intimidating a witness in the probe.

He has been a free man since Trump commuted his entire threeyear sentence in July a few days