Posted on 03/07/2019 4:49:03 AM PST by Monrose72
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will be sentenced by a U.S. judge in Virginia on Thursday for bank and tax fraud. The fraud was uncovered during Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election. Manafort could face what effectively would be a life sentence in prison for the eight charges the veteran Republican political consultant was convicted of by a jury in Alexandria last August.
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And Hillary Clinton walks?
Waiting for such people connected with Hitlery and her brethren to be facing this as well (I know, likely wishful thinking).
Here is a man who life was purposely and publicly destroyed by the US federal government, because we elected a president that “it” disapproved of.
We have a very damned dangerous evil thing in this country.
Yes. That.
I hope Trump pardons him, only standup guy thru this whole BS plot.
What does this criminal have to do with Trump? He was “campaign manager” for all of 59 days! And the FBI never told Trump that PM had been under investigation for multiple issues.
His real “crime” was associating with Trump.
This is purely political. The charges had been examined and dropped years earlier.
The point of the new prosecution is to scare anybody away from ever working with Donald Trump.
Welcome to the USSA, comrades.
Selective justice is the worst kind of justice.
And Cohen gets three years?
Stalin’s Russia comes to mind.
Complete fake news.
Manafort’s crimes were known a decade before Mueller’s investication. DOJ refused to prosecute him because the dollar value of his tax fraud was too small to bother with. They have so many tax cheats, Manafort was below the cutoff to bother with prosecuting. Manafort was only prosecuted by Mueller because of his Trump connection. That is all. He is a criminal, but a small one.
Fake news and lies is all the MSM can spew. Anybody who still can’t see the bias is willfully blind and a flaming liberal.
“Manafort faces what could be a life in prison for bank and tax fraud”
which was investigated years ago and no charges brought. What was the intervening action? Ah, DJT was elected president and he worked for the campaign. Just a coincidence I guess. This is exactly what is going on with Trump: show me the man, I will show you the crime.
I acknowledge that Manafort was a dirt bag tax cheat BUT the government had no case against him till he became a step to get to Trump. Sounds to me like selective prosecution, nothing more.
What is more interesting in the selection of targets here is crimes involving clintoons and their party uncovered during the Muleass witch hunt never get investigated. See, the original mandate was allegedly to investigate Russian Collusion and related crimes uncovered during that inquiry. I guess that only applied to anything involving Trump, no one else.
Since the courts seem to care less to rein in this fiasco
and since the other branch of government is only interested in removing Trump, the good patriots here have virtually no legal recourse. So much so, I now watch reruns of Miami Vice rather than following this stuff anymore.
Something’s wrong. I could see a justice department under Obama not making a move. But this one is Trump’s. And still nothing. I’m tired of hearing swamp and deep state. These are Trump’s appointments. Why no action?
Stand up guy? Just because he didn’t flip doesn’t mean he’s not dirty and deserving of what he gets.
He may well be an actual American political prisoner being held in America in what could be considered gulag like conditions, although I’m sure gulags are worse.
All excellent points.
What is most frightening to me is that since Trump was elected, our government, and certain elements within that government no longer even seem to care about hiding how wicked they are.
They just seem to be of the mind that okay, boys, Trump is president so we are justified in doing absolutely anything now. Nothing is too far. Nothing.
Our government, and its organ, the US Media, have gone balls to the wall insane.
And in solitary. Surprised he wasn’t given the death penalty.
Ever done anything you or a friend skated on? The basis of why Manafort was nailed is where the real problem lies.
By now, everyone is SO de-sensitized to the Liberal hate- mongering and contentious, Kabuki litigation... that it's being tuned-out.
I certainly will not give Liberal crap-trap a single gram of MY attention. Liberals are irreversibly stuck to their VERY unworkable agenda, placing it above all! They continue to misrepresent everything. With the complicity of the MSM, the Liberal accusations only LOOK like they're legitimate. It's all 'theatre'
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