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So how much does he owe in taxes?
This whole damn prosecution of Manfort is an effort to make him say untruths about Donald Trump. If he had information that would hurt Donald Trump, Muller would give him a get out of jail card free. It appears to me that Manafort will not make up lies to suit Mueller. It is that damn simple.
This trial was *ahem* “never intended” to implicate Pres. Trump
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/robert-mueller-paul-manafort-collusion-evidence-wont-be-used/
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/07/mueller-manafort-collusion/
etc, etc, etc ...
Yep. So far, it is no different than the case they could have pursued in 2014 or earlier. I wonder if Trump’s name has even come up.
Where was/is IRS in the scheme of events?
Hard for me to believe they haven’t audited the big bucks.
If Manafort is convicted the demoRats will spin this into a Mueller conviction just like they already spin this as an indictment for his faux investigation. To them it doesn’t matter that there is no collusion in the case, they got a conviction out of it.
In addition what everyone seems to fail to realize is this with Ukraine not Russians. Its why the Ukrainian aspect has been down played by the left. Ask anyone on the street and they will say this trial is about Manafort and the Russians. Has nothing to do with the Russians.
Yes I agree, but how could a killer like Al Capone be convicted of tax evasion and get 11 years, while the Mueller/Weinstein group are shooting for 302 years? Seems a little harsh, especially when their star witness embezzled millions from Manafort.
Wow! That would make a great headline for Jim Acosta to use on CNN.
Mueller wants to deal at sentencing. He knows this trial has no connection to Trump.
If Manafort had dirt on Trump, he could have plead guilty to a lesser crime, probably probation.
As Judge Ellis said, this whole trial is about squeezing Manafort to make him flip.
Funny thing is DOJ looked into this and passed. If Manafort is acquitted, Mueller has nothing to show for all his work.
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von Spakovsky’s summation sums it up:
“Whether you support President Trump or oppose him, the simple and indisputable fact is that nothing in the Manafort trial so far has revealed any evidence of collusion with Russia or any other misconduct by President Trump or his campaign.
This trial is about Paul Manafort and Rick Gates – not Donald Trump.”
A ruse!
Complicated, Sh8t.
I was hoping for a 30 second recap from CNN so I could seem informed at work.
If I wanted any real discussion there would be a “Game of Thrones” type show with characters that we can all relate to.
This is why I’ve “Cut the Cord”, TV today sucks.
My unlimited streaming fits perfectly with my attention span.
I’ve got all the news anybody could want and I can get it in less than 30 seconds.
Beat that.
Blackmail isn’t complicated.
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.
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.
It’s the optics: President Trumps Campaign Manager guilty of....... See how that sounds even if it’s total BS?
So Gates's testimony has no credibility.
Witch. Hunt.