FYI there seems to have been another day of fiasco in the Manafort plant trial ... best indicator is there seems to be little coverage (at least thus far what I’ve seen or able to stand lol) in MSM.
From what I’ve picked up elsewhere thus far, Gates appeared at Court but the Mule team waited until the end of the day to present his testimony. Then, when he was supposed to appear, they had another accountant testify. Then the Judge held a pow-wow and after a break Gates took the stand.
Apparently Gates has not said much if anything that can actually really be held (much?) against Manafort because Gates testified that *he* committed crimes, *he* told the accountant to fill things in, *he* embezzled the profits, etc.. The accountant explained that even if deemed “wrong” accounting, *if* the IRS had ever audited, it would have been around $30K.
Seems to me they need more to connect those dots ... but we’re not there.
Unclear whether Gates is now done or there will be (more?) cross tomorrow.
Separate, If Trump meeting is illegal, then Clinton dossier is criminal too by Jonathan Turley is an interesting read. He tries hard to be balanced, so is very critical of team Trump for being political neophytes. He does get to the point though, that it was the Hillary campaign colluding with the Russians.