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Judge: Manafort agreed to cooperate 'fully and truthfully' with Mueller
The Hill ^ | 09/14/18 | Morgan Chalfant

Posted on 09/14/2018 9:36:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate “fully and truthfully” with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in federal court on Friday.

Jackson said this would include submitting to interviews with the special counsel and providing documents related to the probe.

Manafort pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice by witness tampering on Friday. He agreed to forfeit several properties and bank accounts, including his property at Trump Tower in New York, as part of his deal.

Manafort's decision to cooperate with Mueller's probe could be significant. He had previously not reached a deal to cooperate, and was found guilty of eight charges in a trial last month brought under Mueller's investigation.

Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and Richard Gates, a former associate of Manafort's who testified against him, are also cooperating with Mueller's probe.


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KEYWORDS: 1moretime; manafort; manafortmueller; manafortpleadeal; mueller; trump; trumprussia
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"Manafort's decision to cooperate with Mueller's probe could be significant."

'Could be significant'?

So what does Manafort know?

Either this ends the Mueller investigation or it opens a whole new 'witch hunt' chasing rabbits down new rabbit holes.

1 posted on 09/14/2018 9:36:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

As if Manafort has any damaging information on President Trump.


2 posted on 09/14/2018 9:38:32 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: yesthatjallen; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

egads, after 23hr solitary confinement, I’d agree to anything...


3 posted on 09/14/2018 9:38:59 AM PDT by bitt (We know not what course others may take, but as for me, Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!)
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To: yesthatjallen

What does Mueller know?!?! He knows whatever Mueller composes for him to know. You think Mueller is squeezing these people for real information? He is squeezing them to compose.


4 posted on 09/14/2018 9:40:28 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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Be funny if the judge gives him a sentence of time served and community serve as a slap at Mueller.


5 posted on 09/14/2018 9:41:55 AM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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To: yesthatjallen
I think it's clear that had Manafort not cooperated with Mueller he was going to be as broke as Gen. Flynn.
I think he's trying to save what little he has left. Although that's not much after surrendering a whole bunch of stuff.
6 posted on 09/14/2018 9:42:19 AM PDT by glaseatr (Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep. A Co. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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As if Manafort has any damaging information on President Trump.

A statement, composed for Manafort to review, will be put in front of him and he will sign it.
7 posted on 09/14/2018 9:43:21 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: yesthatjallen

He doesn’t know much of anything other than getting the Trump campaign ready for the 2016 Republican Presidential Convention.


8 posted on 09/14/2018 9:44:23 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: FlipWilson

Manafort had received sympathy from POTUS and a good portion of the public. If he dances to Mueller’s tune, he’s toast. If he stands up for the truth, he may still eke out a pardon down the road.

Whatever happens, I want to see Mueller hung by his balls on the Mall. I’ve had it with this guy.


9 posted on 09/14/2018 9:44:39 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Deranged Q Fringe))
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To: yesthatjallen

Probably not much. He was really just brought into the campaign because the establishment republicans knew the name, so Trump thought he would be helpful managing a floor fight at the convention.

Trump was not friends with him, and didn’t really know him before, and dumped him when it became clear he was not a stellar, upright character.

As can be seen by his apparent witness tampering in his own trial — although I suppose this could be another case of a man pleading guilty to a real crime they didn’t commit.


10 posted on 09/14/2018 9:44:40 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Hostage

He’s an old man. Any prison time amounts to a life sentence.


11 posted on 09/14/2018 9:53:00 AM PDT by Ceebass (Complacency = Pompeii at Pharsalus)
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To: Gahanna Bob

He’s already agreed to forfeit about $46 million in assets.


12 posted on 09/14/2018 9:54:08 AM PDT by Coronal
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To: bitt
egads, after 23hr solitary confinement, I’d agree to anything...

Considering the animals in prison these days, I think I would request Solitary if I were sentenced to jail.

13 posted on 09/14/2018 9:54:54 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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Manafort and Roger Stone have been connected to Trump for close to twenty years. Manafort will know first hand how Russian Oligarchs have funded people to influence various plans in the USA. He'll know about money laundering. He knows about the meeting at Trump Towers that Team Trump lied about for over a year. He knows much of the dirty tricks that Roger Stone has pulled. He'll give Mueller Stone. Stone knows how the Wikileaks/Putin(GRU)/Trump conspiracy worked to get voter information, to target voters, to release emails hacked at the DNC.

Witches are becoming an endangered species now. And real principled conservatives must ask themselves how in the world they turned a blind eye to the self-evident fact that Trump surrounded himself with criminals and scoundrels. All of this is and was predictable. Any naysayer on Trump has been attacked. Yet it was all clear for anyone to see.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-13/trump-just-hired-his-next-scandal-lobbyist-paul-manafort?utm_content=view&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-view

14 posted on 09/14/2018 9:56:43 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: bitt

He’s already pleaded guilty to make it end, and “fully and truthfully” are slippery Weismann’s and Mueller’s words. I suspect not long after the election, Trump is going to commute any sentence or pardon him. Or a combo of both first commute his sentence then later pardon Manafort.


15 posted on 09/14/2018 9:59:14 AM PDT by Red Steel
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the meeting at Trump Towers that Team Trump lied about for over a year.

Sorry, but it is pretty evident from public evidence that the meeting was a DS setup. Thanks for playing, though.

16 posted on 09/14/2018 10:00:55 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Any lover of big government is an enemy of freedom.)
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To: elhombrelibre

BS


17 posted on 09/14/2018 10:01:23 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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“providing documents related to the probe”

As if they didn’t already raid Manafort’s home and office and get every document that had anything to do with Trump.


18 posted on 09/14/2018 10:04:36 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: elhombrelibre

Manafort has worked on the campaign of Ford, Reagan, George HW Bush and Bob Dole...everyone knows Manafort


19 posted on 09/14/2018 10:05:20 AM PDT by chemical_boy
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As if Manafort has any damaging information on President Trump.

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The “information” doesn’t have to be truthful or accurate. It only has to be sold as problematic for Trump, enough to justify impeachment for the Democrats. There is no sign of Mueller slowing down. Trump is still his target. The sole objective is to create grounds for impeachment.

Trump had more than enough real information to clean house at the DOJ and FBI, yet he refuses to fire anyone. As a result, the Mueller witch hunt grows and grows.


20 posted on 09/14/2018 10:08:10 AM PDT by Starboard
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