Posted on 08/22/2018 8:39:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A juror who sat on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's case said on Fox News Wednesday night that only one juror prevented a ruling on all 18 counts against Manafort.
Paula Duncan, who said she is a Trump supporter and that she had hoped Manafort would not be found guilty, said one juror could not come to a guilty verdict on 10 charges, ultimately leading T.S. Ellis III to declare a mistrial on 10 of Manafort's 18 counts.
Duncan said the deliberations were heated, evening bringing some jurors to tears.
A jury convicted Manafort on Tuesday of eight counts of tax and bank fraud.
President Trump pointed to the mistrial as evidence he was being improperly targeted by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“A large number of counts, ten, could not even be decided in the Paul Manafort case. Witch Hunt!” he tweeted Wednesday morning.
No where in the article does it state the sex of the hold-out juror.
Because I had cause to believe it was a cis-gender female?
Sorry about that——my error.
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Good luck!
Technically true, but she is also the juror who said she wanted Manafort to be found “not guilty.”
Even the “supposedly unnamed juror” agreed with the guilty counts on all but ten.
In her MAGA hat, loving Trump, saying she thinks it was for political reasons...and she still voted to give Mueller a win.
Moron, picked because she was easily manipulated.
Thank god there was one person on the jury with a backbone.
Sorry, this is off-topic, but.... did anyone see the next segment of Shannon Bream's show with Kevin McCarthy? McCarthy was in Las Vegas, and was really slurring his words. I think he was drunk!
“Thank god there was one person on the jury with a backbone.”
It’s not good.
With 11 jurors voting to convict, Mueller will bring him to trial again.
Doubtful. Very doubtful.
The original case was a “witchhunt” because Mueller and his gang wanted to tie Manafort to the non-existent “Russian Collusion” charge by the Democrats.
While he was found guilty of financial crimes, and what I’ve heard from juror Duncan (who was very good in presently how they arrived at their decisions), there WAS NO COLLUSION evidence presented which undercut the whole premise of this case/trial, which could have been handled earlier by the IRS/DOJ financial crimes division.
I don’t know Manafort, never met him, etc. etc. etc. However, I do respect his stance not to sell out the president in order to save his own skin, unlike that sleazebally lawyer Cohen who made a deal with the devil but never read the small print. Cohen is finished as an attorney, a businessman, and a once-friend of Donald Trump.
Also, how Mueller and his goons handled the Manafort affair re the blatantly “show” invasion of his house at about 6:00 in the morning shows just how corrupt Mueller, Rosenstein, and their henchmen are in that they will do anything, legal or illegal, to get a conviction that will damage the President.
I hope that Trump has a “Friday Morning Massacre” in the next month or right after the elections, in which he fires Mueller, Rosenstein, all of Mueller’s team, and a couple of other corrupt DOJ/FBI leaders, at one time, sealing their offices, seizing everything in them and in their possession, even at home, revoking all their security clearances, and then gets a grand jury to charge them with various crimes from “entrapment” to “excessive use of force” and everything inbetween.
If the Republicans lose the House in November, what has Trump got to lose by going after them with every power he legally has, including going after those DOJ officials who refused to indict Hillary and her gang on Servergate, UraniumOne (which is still in the air), Bleachbitgate, Pay-to-Play Clinton Foundation donations, domestic and foreign, lying to the feds about what happened to the 33,000 emails that were under subpoena (and who got rid of them), destruction of government property, and in Hillary’s case, taking Mob money in the mid-1990’s in a quid pro quo affair for the Mafia to get $30 Million dollars in labor training grants.
This latter item is written up in great detail by Byron York in The American Spectator, April 1997, “Let’s Be Friends: A Mob-Controlled Union Delivers the Goods for Bill”, plus the devious move by then AG Janet Reno to take the planned takeover of the union (LIUNA) and its assets that were used by Organized Crime in their criminal planning and actions, out of the hands of DOJ/Mary Jo White, USDA, the SOUTHERN DISTRICT, NY and put it into the hands of a much less qualified DOJ employee (which let the head of the union stay in power, while his predecessor, his father, Arthur Coia Jr., was still in jail for mob activities in the labor unions.
Read this article and you’ll see how mob money was laundered to the Clintons, the DNC and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, right under the nose of AG Janet Reno and her gang.
If anything calls for a grand jury investigation, this whole sordid affair does, and if it ever happens, Bill and Hillary will go to jail for the rest of their lives, along with some of their advisors, outside lawyers, and some others (one is dead, fortunately for America).
This article shows the absolute corruptness of the Clinton Administration as well as the absolute corruptness/incompetence of the Congressional Democrats and Republicans who held congressional hearings which resulted in a big fat “Nothing Burger”.
Having given 4 oral congressional testimonies, one written one, and created/edited a Senate study on terrorism, plus having worked for a congressman, I know a little about how good and bad congressional hearings are done. These stank.
And finally, my piece de resistance, is the fact that I worked on the Organized Crime Task Force that targeted LIUNA and several other labor unions. While I’m still under a Non-Disclosure Agreement, I can say that York’s article filled in the blanks about the betrayal of UDSA White’s efforts by the Clinton White House/Hillary and AG Reno cabal to cover-up their financial ties to Organized Crime.
The Democrats own this sordid betrayal of the extremely dangerous work of several federal undercover agents plus the whole task force, to bring down several major Crime families (you’ve see some of their stories on TV, esp. about Gotti, the Gambinos, Gigante, Patriarcha, etc).
We now see this SAME PATTERN in the Rosenstein/Mueller/McCabe/Strzok-Page, Ohrs, Yates, etc corrupt leadership of the FBI and DOJ.
November will tell us whether the United States of America will still exist as a land of laws of, for, and by the people, or whether a Democrat Party/Marxist coalition will turn it into a “legal wasteland” in order to carry out a
“congressional coup” against the President and the Constitution.
I stand with the Constitution and the President no matter what may come.
Manafort WAS guilty of not paying his taxes and I would have voted him guilty on those counts, too. If HE AND HIS DEFENSE TEAM had at least presented a defense about how he was being selectively prosecuted and how people like Timothy Geithner also didn’t pay their taxes on similar income and how he just felt it was the way Washington worked I might have been able to at least consider his defense. But he never presented one.
“A large number of counts, ten, could not even be decided in the Paul Manafort case. Witch Hunt!” he tweeted Wednesday morning.
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The Tweet is absolutely true. This is a one sided witch hunt that never should have happened.
Good observation. Unfortunately the Manafort legal team missed an opportunity to bring up your points, win, lose or draw.
Republican lawyers have got to learn how to “fight” in court, not tie their hands behind their own backs.
And believe me, I know how hard it is to find a good lawyer who knows how to fight for a client.
Instead of defending only high-paying clients, our side should also train young lawyers to fight as though they were in a back alley, and not, legally, hold back on any legitimate tactic or strategy.
If it was a good enough strategy for Patton, then it damned well should be good enough for our lawyers.
People worry about what she said, he said...
The coup advances.
When is enough, enough?
Actually there were two but one got bullied into following the others.
The man is in his 70’s what difference does it make how many counts? Unless President Trump pardons him he will not get out of prison alive.
Ping for later viewing.
These bastards should have been told to go F*** themselves.
Yeah, I thought it was more than a little strange that Manafort’s attorneys didn’t even call one witness.
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