Posted on 08/11/2018 2:42:26 PM PDT by jazusamo
The first two weeks of the trial of former Donald Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort on 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud charges have failed to implicate Trump or his campaign in any alleged criminal conduct.
Prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is investigating Russias interference in the 2016 presidential election are expected to call their final witness Monday at Manaforts trial in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. If convicted on all counts, Manafort could face a maximum sentence of 305 years in prison.
So far weve learned that the prosecutions star witness, former Manafort employee Rick Gates, is a liar, a serial adulterer and a thief who embezzled funds from Manafort.
And weve learned that Manafort is alleged to have evaded paying taxes on income that he and Gates earned through secret offshore bank accounts, shell companies and fraudulent bank loans.
But when it comes to the mandate given to Mueller on May 17, 2017, weve learned absolutely nothing. Mueller was charged with investigating any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump.
But neither Gates nor any other witness at the Manafort trial has testified about the Russian election interference or any alleged collusion between the Trump campaign or Trump himself with the Russians.
Manafort was with the Trump presidential campaign for just under five months. Thats a tiny sliver of the long career of the 68-year-old.
All of the testimony at the Manafort trial has addressed events that occurred long before Manafort went to work for 2016 Trump campaign. The testimony has focused on Manaforts and Gatess activities as alleged unregistered agents representing the Ukrainian government starting in 2006.
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Does anyone know whether or not Mueller has produced bank and income tax records as evidence? If so I missed it.
Hard to believe you can be thrown in jail for life plus because you have expensive taste in clothes and, for all the jury knows, could easily be just living well beyond your means.
Manafort is still scheduled to go on trial in D.C. in September.
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Yep. It’s amazing that our government is allowed unlimited taxpayer’s resources to go after someone.
Basically set up to give them two opportunities to get him if they don’t the first time.
1.). Manafort was a business partner with Oleg Daripaska (Russian oligarch, close friend of Putin) and things happened between him and Daripaska. Money was lost, and it became extremely acrimonious. IT IS THOUGHT BY MANY THAT DARIPASKA, A WEALTHY, WELL CONNECTED, POWERFUL MAN HAS A VENDETTA AGAINST MANAFORT.
2.). Daripaska was/is represented by a lawyer/lobbyist named Adam Waldman.
3.). Lobbyist Adam Waldman also appears to be representing Julian Assange in some aspects. in 2017 Waldman visited Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London 9 times, more than any other single person.
3.) Adam Waldman also represents...Christopher Steele.
4.). Adam Waldman has, over the last year or so, been in contact with Sen. Mark Warner on the Senate Intelligence Committee via text messages.
Maybe it is just me, but isn't this entire thing a bit cozy and disturbing, all this back channel communication going on between all these people who are involved in various ways?
Because there wasn't any collusion.
Is it the judge who decides on length of jail time, or is it mandated by law?
It’s the optics: President Trumps Campaign Manager guilty of....... See how that sounds even if it’s total BS?
Half a dozen high profile Dems owe taxes & no one is taking them to trial. So does Warren Buffett——lots of $$$$$$$.
Sharpton owes plenty.
President Trumps Campaign Manager guilty of.......Yep. Even the FAUX reporter put "Donald Trump presidential campaign chairman" in the very first sentence.
So Gates's testimony has no credibility.
They know Manafort doesn’t have syphilis, he can last longer than 11 years, so give him a harsher sentence [/s].
Witch. Hunt.
For the same thing? Isn’t that Double Jeopardy?
He was never charged and acquitted. They declined to bring charges because, why? He was working with the Dem’s at the time and could have brought them all down.
If anything comes of this farce of charges against Manafort Trump will pardon him!!! Trump doesnt give a rats ass about the political implications Trump is NOT a political guy!!!!
MULE FACE will not stop until EVERYONE around Trump is RUINED!! He won’t give up until BARRON is in Prison!
The Clinton Crime Family Slush Fund has OFF-SHORE Accounts!! Is Mule Face going to look into them? Of course not, they are DEMOCRATS!
Because Al Capone wasn’t involved with Trump, that’s why!
Manafort will NOT be acquitted......they put him in SOLITARY Confinement......he will be found Guilty....Mule Face will make sure of it!
WHY would this happen?.....hmmmm
Sounds like Adam Waldman and Mark Warner are VERY cozy.....hmmmmm.
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