As the judge said, Gates is singing and composing.
As I read it, he already plead guilty to lesser charges in exchange for this testimony.
Must be getting rusty. A whole article about the Manafort trial from leftist Reuters and they didn’t mention Russia once.
And Mulehead wants Manafort to make up stuff on Trump.
Mulehead is also engaged in witness tampering.
In a criminal case, it’s always nice to have someone else to point a finger at. Gates should do nicely. The prosecution has established that Manafort was so disengaged from what Gates was doing that he didn’t even know that Gates was siphoning off money.
Nothing to do with Trump but they can’t help but link trumps name in the very first sentence.
As a jurror, I hear “I stole money from my boss”, and I think why waste my time with the rest of his testimony?
This thing is a train wreck.
Where's the proof of Manafort's request? What info did Manafort specifically ask Gates to omit? Where is the original deposition on this private equity fund? Did anybody bother to ask for details? Gates admits to being a thief, then the jury is expected to believe him when he says Manafort asked him to omit info?
I love how liberals claim that using torture to get info from people is bad because after a while, they'll say anything you want them too. Same thing goes for cutting a deal with prosecutors. People will lie their azzes just to get a deal.
Oh well the Jury has no choice but to put Manafort on Death Row ,guiltiest person in the History of the World ,LOL
Whatever crimes Gates and Manafort commited it was not connected to the Trump campaign.
Manafort is a political prisoner. He has already served more time (and in isolation) than most who engage in his crimes. He is essentially being tortured now. He should be pardoned.
If Manafort just gets a slap on the wrist, the media will come out with
“Trump’s Campaign Manager Found GUILTY!!!”
Manafort's lawyer needs to full-court press Gates to link Manafort<-->Davis/McCain/Ukraine and the quid pro quo that's on the public record, and when Gates lies to preserve McCain, impeach Gates' testimony.
So Gates and Manafort are tax cheats. What on God’s green Earth does this have to do with Trump? Manafort worked for Trump for 59 days, and Trump was never warned by the FBI was under investigation before he was hired.
So he’s a thief - that’ll make him a credible witness!
He’s been prosecuted. He got a plea deal for turning on Manafort. Everyone knows that and the defense will tear him apart on that.
The testimony of a thief.....
Manafort’s former best friend in kindergarten testified that he traded his banana for Manafort’s apple, and the apple was squishy and he stopped being his best friend after that, and told him, and Manafort called him a poopy pants and stuck out his tongue. Yawn.