The whole prosecution seems to be spite-driven, and that’s turning it into clowns in the courtroom. This thing may fall of its own proud ponderousness.
I would suggest that when this court episode ends, Manafort may get one or two guilty verdicts, with the rest all dismissed/not guilty. Manafort will end up with fines and some probation-like situation.
As for the prosecution lawyers? I think they will take a week off, reflect on the whole marginalized case they had, and resign from the Mueller team.
I will suggest this however....if this had been brought up in tax-court instead, without all of the theatrics, then Manafort would have easily lost and been fined for tons of money (which he no longer has). Zero way that he would have avoided guilt.
Mueller is engaged in witness tampering, since his only goal in prosecuting Manafort is to get him to make up lies about Trump.
The entire Mueller farce needs to be shut down immediately!
Andres speaks to the judge with disdain because, like all Swampers, they believe they ultimately wield more power than one judge.
“Cry, cry, c’mon squirt a few, 1-2-3, cry!”
Do you think Andre volunteered to flush his career down the drain?
If they had a real case they wouldn’t need Gates’ testimony. The numbers either line up or they don’t. Gates has no credibility “Yes the guy I embezzled from, is guilty of everything charged. Can I go home now?”
Thanks for posting this...
As opposed to a simple "Nay"?
Or, did the author mean, "yeah"?
Little Wise-ass was probably thinking, “You don’t know who your f***ing with, old man. If we can bring down the President of the United States, we can take you down too...”