Manafort literally pulled this case out of the basement of the Treasury Department. It has absolutely nothing to do with Russians, collusion, etc. The judge even warned Mueller about this, but let the case go forward. You can see the judge is already limiting Mueller on a lot of things.
Napolitano hasn’t been the sharpest in his commentary lately - I’d like to see some evidence of the exoneration, as opposed to a decision not to charge.
Mueller likely told RR that he was drilling a dry hole with the Russian collusion baloney and RR passed his old Manafort file to Mueller: “Here, Bob. See if you can make this stick. We can’t just let him go.”
Lordy I hope so. It would put this circus on full display
Weren’t Mueller and Weissman FBI at that time? Call them too
Napolitano hasn’t been right much, he just says what the far-right want to hear.
Double jeopardy?
Rosenstein tabling his old investigation of Manafort is a far cry from “exoneration”. I’d speculate it was more a matter of politics and corruption.
At the time, Rosenstein worked at the pleasure of the Obama administration, and Manafort was an associate of Democrat insiders including the Podesta Brothers and Tad Devine.
Was Rosenstein ordered to shut it down, as a matter of Democrat/Hillary privilege and to protect cabal members that Manafort might expose in court? I’d like to see Rosenstein questioned about that under oath. It’s obvious that now, Manafort is being prosecuted for political purposes of the Dems. Is it any less probable that he was protected for the political purposes of the same faction before? I am biased towards Manafort not being convicted, because I want to thwart the current anti-Trumper media, IC, politicians, etc. But is Manafort actually guilty? I bet that Rosenstein thinks so.
Rosenstein knew that the old Manafort case had nothing to do with the 2016 election. Was he frustrated before, and used the Russian Collusion narrative as a way to have another go? There are a great many possibilities regarding motives.
VWRY, VERY INTERESTING!!
Remember when the Constitution used to protect against double jeopardy? Boy, those were great times.