Manafort just shot himself in the foot
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I hope the state DA's and AG's are ready to move in the second Trump finishes his signature on the pardon.
It would never happen.
Have to listen when Fox says it.
Fox News legal analyst stunned at how Mueller made it impossible for Trump to save Manafort
n Tuesday, Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano revealed to host Shep Smith that Special Counsel Robert Mueller acted strategically to block President Donald Trump from pardoning Paul Manafort.
Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, was busted for lying even after he signed a plea agreement.
It is unclear exactly what he lied about, but Napolitano explained that Mueller designed the plea agreement in such a way that it is “pardon proof.”
“The guilty plea is 175 pages long. In my career, I have never seen one like this. It was so carefully crafted by Bob Mueller and signed by Paul Manafort, that at the time he pleaded guilty to the charges he was indicted for — which was basically bank fraud, money laundering, and some form of commercial bribery of foreign officials in federal court. He also pleaded guilty to uncharged state crimes in New Jersey, in Virginia and in California.”
He added, “Why did they do that? To make it pardon proof so if President Trump, which he can do, does pardon him for the federal crimes the state prosecutors in those states already have his guilty plea.”
“Mueller has played by the book, no leaks no lies that we know of,” he concluded.
Fox News legal analyst stunned at how Mueller made it impossible for Trump to save Manafort
n Tuesday, Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano revealed to host Shep Smith that Special Counsel Robert Mueller acted strategically to block President Donald Trump from pardoning Paul Manafort.
Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, was busted for lying even after he signed a plea agreement.
It is unclear exactly what he lied about, but Napolitano explained that Mueller designed the plea agreement in such a way that it is “pardon proof.”
“The guilty plea is 175 pages long. In my career, I have never seen one like this. It was so carefully crafted by Bob Mueller and signed by Paul Manafort, that at the time he pleaded guilty to the charges he was indicted for — which was basically bank fraud, money laundering, and some form of commercial bribery of foreign officials in federal court. He also pleaded guilty to uncharged state crimes in New Jersey, in Virginia and in California.”
He added, “Why did they do that? To make it pardon proof so if President Trump, which he can do, does pardon him for the federal crimes the state prosecutors in those states already have his guilty plea.”
“Mueller has played by the book, no leaks no lies that we know of,” he concluded.
3D chess master
Make that 1D.
He is an uncontrolled witch hunter who is not able to make the kill on his primary mission so doubles and triples down on the side bit players to try to compensate.
Russia . . . . . if you're listening , 
GOP’s Rick Wilson says Trump knows he’s cooked: ‘Playtime is over and Donald doesn’t like it’
Republican strategist Rick Wilson believes that President Donald Trump knows he’s about to get absolutely crushed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe — and his frantic tweets attacking Mueller are the only weapon he has left in his arsenal.
Writing in the Daily Beast, Wilson explains how the House GOP for two years has helped Trump dodge accountability, all while attacking the FBI for investigating whether the president’s campaign worked with Russian agents to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
But now that Democrats have taken back the House and special counsel Robert Mueller is seemingly preparing to level a devastating report on his actions as president, Wilson says that Trump can feel his power to block accountability being stripped away from him.
“Playtime is over and Donald doesn’t like it,” Wilson quips.
Wilson then speculates that Mueller had long known that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was not being honest with him — but he waited until Trump had turned in written answers to his questions about Russian collusion before he made his findings public.
“It now appears that Robert Mueller carefully timed his withdrawal of Manafort’s plea agreement to line up with the president finally turning in his homework,” Wilson writes. “Mueller is careful, methodical, and strategic. His silences are important, disciplined, and consequential.”
In conclusion, Wilson writes that “pain — political, economic, and legal pain—is coming to Donald Trump, and he’s earned every bit of it.”
Republican strategist Rick Wilson believes that President Donald Trump knows he’s about to get absolutely crushed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe — and his frantic tweets attacking Mueller are the only weapon he has left in his arsenal.
Writing in the Daily Beast, Wilson explains how the House GOP for two years has helped Trump dodge accountability, all while attacking the FBI for investigating whether the president’s campaign worked with Russian agents to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
But now that Democrats have taken back the House and special counsel Robert Mueller is seemingly preparing to level a devastating report on his actions as president, Wilson says that Trump can feel his power to block accountability being stripped away from him.
“Playtime is over and Donald doesn’t like it,” Wilson quips.
Wilson then speculates that Mueller had long known that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was not being honest with him — but he waited until Trump had turned in written answers to his questions about Russian collusion before he made his findings public.
“It now appears that Robert Mueller carefully timed his withdrawal of Manafort’s plea agreement to line up with the president finally turning in his homework,” Wilson writes. “Mueller is careful, methodical, and strategic. His silences are important, disciplined, and consequential.”
In conclusion, Wilson writes that “pain — political, economic, and legal pain—is coming to Donald Trump, and he’s earned every bit of it.”
BTW this article from the poster is from Raw Story - https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/go...knows-hes-cooked-playtime-donald-doesnt-like/
It starts with the following - and includes many other parts that the poster does not include in their "quotation". Obviously the poster wanted to not only hide the source link but the fact that Rick Wilson is a virulent and hateful anti-Trumper.
Anti-Trump Republican strategist Rick Wilson believes that President Donald Trump knows he’s about to get absolutely crushed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe — and his frantic tweets attacking Mueller are the only weapon he has left in his arsenal. Writing in the Daily Beast, Wilson explains how the House GOP for two years has helped Trump dodge accountability, all while attacking the FBI for investigating whether the president’s campaign worked with Russian agents to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Considering the source and Rick Wilson's long history of hateful and fabricated statements... everyone should be very skeptical of the content in this article. But this article is a classic example of how low the media has sunk in the U.S. -- the selective quoting of the content is an example of the depths the left has fallen to in driving their talking points over reality.