Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Told to Surrender
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Are you trying to claim the charges involve campaign related activities? Because even the CNN headline states "Charges do not cover campaign-related activities".
Again, how is Manafort working for Trump's campaign while he was committing crimes while being a campaign manager not related to campaign itself. Whether he committed crimes directly for the campaign is yet to be seen because this is first of many indictments and Mueller obviously wants Manafort to cooperate with his wider probe, notice that Manafort was charged for lying to federal authorities while no mention of his lies regarding the secret Russian government meeting was mentioned.
Napolitano agrees
“Bob Mueller is following the standard M.O. of federal prosecutors,” the judicial analyst continued. “You’ve got a totem pole, you’ve got somebody at the top of the totem pole, that’s your big prize: no surprise, it’s the president of the United States.”
“You’re going to indict people going up the totem pole to see if you can squeeze them. Threaten their ruination, by loss of liberty or loss of property to get them to turn evidence against the top guy.”
Napolitano concluded that “this is the first in many steps in Bob Mueller’s putting together an enormous puzzle.”
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/judge-n...t-this-is-the-first-of-many-dominoes-to-fall/
Oh, I am well aware of that. And the feds have no power to offer immunity at the state level if he is subject to state prosecution and his testimony at the fed level would be admissible in state court. It all comes back to what I said yesterday or sometime which is that when prosecutors try to shake a defendant down hard sometimes they scare them into cooperating but - as often- it goes the other way where their attorneys just tell their clients that they have exposure elsewhere so just plead the fifth and take what comes. '
In theory, Mueller could collude with the state to work out a deal - and I am all in favor of it- because it would be Mueller admitting that they can't accomplish anything and that's fine. If the state of new York can get a conviction on mannafort for real estate deals or something, I could care less. Both Flynn and mannafort are expendable. And Mannafort does not have anything on trump so they can do whatever they want. Flynn doesn't have anything on trump either.
So they can make plea deals, or be acquitted, or spend the next twenty years in jail. Don't give a fuck.
TreeFrogTrader : regrding your comments on my "vacationing" in Syria.
As I have never travelled to Syria, I can only confirm that you are full of BS.
So your "analysis" on Manafort must also be some type of BS.
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Now to the serious posters on Politics: those who bring facts, and not just their "feelings of like or dislike " when talking politics.
I was about to miss this important development via Manafort.
Sure Manafort activities are very questionnable.
How does Manafort serious legal troubles could impact Trump Presidency ?
I am finding out that many overseas, have started to appreciate Trump's decisions not to deal with Dictators - and that is a huge change with former US Presidents. Also releasing JFK assassination docs is proving quiet popular.
Could it be that Trump is now the kind of honey pot to catch all types of criminally-linked individuals? I mean, now it should be known that whoever
approaches Trump has better be squeaky clean, as the USA itself is protecting
the Presidency position.
As I have never travelled to Syria, I can only confirm that you are full of BS.
So your "analysis" on Manafort must also be some type of BS.
* * *
Now to the serious posters on Politics: those who bring facts, and not just their "feelings of like or dislike " when talking politics.
I was about to miss this important development via Manafort.
Sure Manafort activities are very questionnable.
How does Manafort serious legal troubles could impact Trump Presidency ?
I am finding out that many overseas, have started to appreciate Trump's decisions not to deal with Dictators - and that is a huge change with former US Presidents. Also releasing JFK assassination docs is proving quiet popular.
Could it be that Trump is now the kind of honey pot to catch all types of criminally-linked individuals? I mean, now it should be known that whoever
approaches Trump has better be squeaky clean, as the USA itself is protecting
the Presidency position.
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Exactly, zero mention of the Russian meeting in the indictment, Mueller is saving that for later.
I guess many crime-related people around Trump might have assumed that Trump being POTUS, meant the USA would now be an easy picking fruit.
May be like many, they had no idea that the USA is a very well protected country, and
astonishingly seem to have some people of integrity who are not afraid to go after
"foreign agents, money laundering, and mafia" as they did put it.