Posted on 08/17/2018 10:05:14 PM PDT by ransomnote
Manafort is described in an early Q drop as a plant. I don’t know about Cohen.
I’ve spent some time reading the sections of the Courts-Martial amendments that are to be implemented Jan 2019 (Drop #1926). They appear to originate in December of 2016 (Obama in power but he knew he lost) and were delayed in 2017 and 2018. I don’t know if they will ever be implemented - I note that they include a requirement for a reduction of the number of flag officers and generals - something Obama would have loved. This should be the link:
http://uscode.house.gov/download/bills/114-2/114-328_pp_2071-2154_Div_A-Title-III-V.pdf
I then read through parts of the Courts-Martial documents in force now.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-04860.pdf
Around page 28 there’s this:
(i) General courts-martial may try any person who by the law of war is subject to trial
by military tribunal for any crime or offense against:
(a) The law of war; or
(b) The law of the territory occupied as an incident of war or belligerency
whenever the local civil authority is superseded in whole or part by the military authority of the
occupying power. The law of the occupied territory includes the local criminal law as adopted
or modified by competent authority, and the proclamations, ordinances, regulations, or orders
promulgated by competent authority of the occupying power.
(ii) When a general court-martial exercises jurisdiction under the law of war, it may
adjudge any punishment permitted by the law of war.
___________________________
So I looked up the Law of War manual:
http://archive.defense.gov/pubs/Law-of-War-Manual-June-2015.pdf
I’ve skimmed through the first 115 pages, reading sections of interest. I am satisfied it is a very robust document which has been cultivated to address diverse situations including ours.
The document applies the law of war to one group denying sovereignty to another, to a state in conflict with rebels domestic (when it exceeds riot conditions) and foreign agents, when war was never declared (Geneva convention still applies-therefore law of war still applies).
No single section of the Law of War document is the basis of my opinion - I called out too many sections in my notes to provide and they would then removed from context so I don’t see the point of posting them. Basically - it’s my opinion that Q cited the 2018 Courts-Martial document in drop #1926 because it DOES apply to our current situation and the reading I’ve done amply supports that opinion.
I think one reason, among others, that situations like ours (coup attempt/war) civilian courts are not appropriate to hear cases is because the aggressors (Deep State) are bound by the Geneva convention and can be charged with violating the Geneva convention in their conduct; civilian courts (unlike military tribunals) are not prepared in advance to hear those claims.
Shoot.
Do you mean "martial law"? Military law?
A "marshall" is a police officer, such as Marshall Dillon, or the federal marshals.
PS
*derp*
And of course, regarding RED - to Christians, it also denotes the blood of our Savior, Christ Jesus!
Probably the very reason why the Cabal took it over to besmirch. And the very reason they vampirize the blood of the Innocents - they have no Light from the Lord themselves, so they must steal it.
Again, just my honest/humble opinion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2E6tvsGTbQ&feature=youtu.be&t=2h11m24s
Church of His Presence
Streamed live on Aug 19, 2018
Pastor John Kilpatrick
Sunday, August 19, 2018
QUOTE
. . .
WITCHCRAFT is trying to take over this country
. . .
min ~18:00 . . . Pastor who lays it on the line. . . . he keeps it real . . .
We have to protect that deposit they made in us because the enemy wants to steal it out of us.
So, ... when the Word goes forth, you know what happens--the enemy comes immediately to take away that Word. So, we have to hold onto that Word.
We have to walk out of here--and the circumstances may look the same--they may be the same--
but we have to say NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST US SHALL PROSPER BECAUSE GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN ME THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD!
AND I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD!
I will not allow my circumstances to dictate the way I am. I will allow the Word of God to be my filter. That's what I was staying on.
- - - - -
{PASTOR Kilpatrick about minute 59:15}
. . . I was playing with a magnifying glass . . . it would start burning a hole in the leaves . . .
I was just thinkin' this mornin' on the way into church--the Sun the way it is normally--it gives light--it's a blessing. But you can work with that sun with a magnifying glass and you can make it do things that ordinarily it doesn't do.
THE BIBLE SAYS, MAGNIFY THE LORD WITH ME. MAGNIFY THE LORD WITH ME--EXTOL HIS HOLY HAME!
And when you begin to magnify the Word of God over your situation--and you BEGIN TO HOLD THE MAGNIFICATION OF THE WORD OF THE LORD UP OVER ANYTHING THAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH--IT'LL BURN A HOLE RIGHT THROUGH IT! {min: 1:00:26}
I'm going to deal with containment . . . one of his objectives is not to kill you because he knows he can't . . . if God didn't protect us . . . supernatural surveillance and supernatural health--the devil would take you out before tomorrow morning.
. . . One of his main things that he does is he tries to contain you. . . . they unloaded a buldozer and they cut a circle around the fire and contained it. . . . The Lord said that's what the devil does when there's a revival . . .
All you need to understand is that The Lord's got a way to bless you. . . . cast your net on this side of the boat . . . such an abundance of fish, the boat started sinking. . . . He's a blesser. Many times He will over-answer what I've prayed. Remember the goodness of The Lord and what He's done for you.
1:16:32
. . . The devil studies us--knows us; knows how we were raised; knows the ... circuitry of our thinking . . . he will immediately go to work and start putting things in our path that we feel like is too great and too much to deal with and we just back away from it and the devil continues to contain us. ... so you just settle for where you are.
You get out of something what you put into it.
. . . The devil will try to make things so complicated that you won't even tackle it.
. . . if you don't do what God says, He'll rachet it up a little bit . . .
~1:38:00
--the devil can't take your head off as long as you're speaking truth . . .
~1:40:00
. . . We are at that juncture right now in the Body of Christ. God is trying to raise up deliverers . . . who will speak truth to power . . .
It's time to be free. It's time to go. You're not a slave.
There comes a time when God will send someone to you.
. . . You've got to go against hurricanes & tornadoes of evil spirits . . .
. . . The definition of containment is to prevent expansion.
. . . The Lord said it's time for expansion.
. . . For Gos has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Tim 1:7
. . . What causes a person's gift to go dormant is INTIMIDATION.
. . . it implies timidity and cowardice . . . fear . . .
Paul . . . he's saying "Timothy, the gift of God in you lies dormant because of intimidation."
. . . INTIMIDATED believers are believers that lose their authority by default. . . . it's present but you don't have what it takes inside to press ahead in the face of adversity and not be intimidated by it.
~1:54:30
Elijah
1:56:06 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long will you halt between to opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. I Kings 18:21
1:59:19
A spirit of intimidation does 4 things
A SPIRIT OF INTIMIDATION RELEASES
--CONFUSION
--MENTAL FOG
--SPIRIT OF DISCOURAGEMENT
--FRUSTRATION
So, the purpose of a spirit of intimidation is to cause you to lose your confidence and your authority. 1:59:48
You'll never lose your authority unless you first lose your confidence.
. . . everything seems overwhelming . . . everything seems difficult--downright impossible . . . hopeless . . . a spirit of worthlessness.
If that spirit is not dealt with quickly, it will cause you to make decisions you'll regret . . .
He was knocked out of his position of authority just that quickly (because of the message from Jezebel).
-------------- ~2:02:41 As a result of Elijah running, . . . the nation backslid overnight . . . they went right back into Baalism . . .
I'm really concerned . . . {Re America} . . . I think it's going over the heads of most Christians . . .
As long as Elijah was dealing with Ahab, Elijah was as bold as a lion. Ahab was already controlled by his wife so it was easy for Elijah to control him . . . he was dealing with a weak man . . .
Can have the title . . . but someone else is the power broker behind you
{lists a lot of government officers--puppets} . . . a greater power trying to control all of them.
. . .But as soon as Ahab backed up . . . and Jezebel stepped up . . . he ran . . .
It's gonna take 2 men now to do what you should have done . . .
You cowed down in the face of intimidation . . .
---------------
. . . and he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? 2 Kngs 9:22
2:11:40
I don't know if you know this. I don't know if you're going to believe me when I tell you this. But what's happening right now in America, is witchcraft's trying to take this country over.
It's witchcraft is trying to take America back over.
And I want to tell you something else. I am not being political but I don't see how President Trump bears up under it. He's as strong as I've ever seen a man be.
But here's what The Holy Spirit said to me last night: And here's what He said to me to tell you:
He said tell the church that so far, Trump has been dealing with Ahab.
But Jezebel's fixing to step out from the shadows.
That's what The Lord said to me.
. . . I felt such a powerful unction when I was preaching on containment.
The Lord said he's (Trump) been dealing with this but He said
PRAY FOR HIM NOW--because He said--you'd THERE'S ABOUT TO BE A SHIFT ~2:13:00
AND THE DEEP STATE IS ABOUT TO BE A SHOWDOWN LIKE YOU CAN'T BELIEVE.
So I'm coming to you as a prophet and a man of God and I'm telling you it's time to pray for the President {EARNESTLY!} 2:13:18
I heard the Lord say there's going to be an attempt to take him {Trump} right out of power.
{urges the congregation to pray earnestly, intensely}
Prays in tongues . . .
Close out every witchcraft spirit--flush it out!
Let's see who it is. Let's see what's going on.
Lord, we pray for his wife . . . Melania . . . for his children, for all his family. Lord put a hedge of protection around them. Make this man like a Moses--unintimidated.
2 shall put 10,000 to flight . . . . Let's pray . . . get somebody's hand . . . In the Name of Jesus . . .
Keep him, Lord. Keep him, Lord . . .
Lord, we're not going back. We're done with Jezebel.
Lord, the soul of this country's at stake. The very soul of this country's at stake.
It's almost like a stupor has come over America. . . . it's just not sinking in.
~2:22:07
Lord, remove the veil! Lift the veil! Let it begin to soak into this nation that there's a battle for the soul of America.
Lord, I ask in Jesus' Name, Expose those shadow spirits. Expose who the shadow government is. Snatch the curtain up, Lord.
Then America will be really free. Then the Church will not be contained any more . . . Snatch the curtain up in the Name of Jesus Christ.
It's like Trump is trying to take America by the hand and say we can be great again--and they're trying to trip him up every move he makes.
Father, topple Jezebel! Topple the powers that be. It's time! Containment is over! Let's Go. Let's move. Let's Go!
You're going to have to be sensitive to pray without me calling you to pray.
He's not a perfect man. No. . . . but he's sure a man who's taken a lot of flack for this nation.
I pray God will bless him and help him continue to be strong.
Tombstone - one of the greatest movies evuh!
“I’m your huckleberry”.
Please see the sermon I just posted.
The slow roll makes more sense when you keep in mind that goal, but I am still anxious to see some other principles (of the Deep State Coup) get indicted.
Especially after today's Manfort guilty verdicts and Cohen guilty plea, it's time for "The Best Defense". Seeing Comey perp-walked, for instance !
Thanks for the link.
Posting blind here, sliding the thread, apologies for that but I’m combining my slide with a reminder to call your slimy legislators about anything you feel is important. They do work for us.
I had asked many of you to pray for a medical situation as a result of one of my sons-in-law’s service in Iraq. I had a long conversation yesterday and received a lot of good news about improvements to our VA.
In our case this was 2 fold. 1) Being referred to a specialist outside the VA medical system and 2) A change in personnel in higher ranks with new orders to stop forced early retirement because of the illness. The early retirement was going to result in loss of insurance and VA care. They are now processing paperwork to insure that my son-in-law continues to receive the care and treatment he needs.
Overall this is answered prayer. It’s also a credit to one of our state senators on my regular call list. The Senator is a disabled vet himself and went the extra mile for us. A good reason for all to keep calling those critters!
But Jack. Q tells us over and over that Huber is a large part of the plan.
Are you trying to tell us that Q is bogus?
I'll go with Q over Jack Black this time.
Also. Huber talks about ONE case and that means his office can't be working on others?
He comes out one time and makes a statement on ONE case and you assume nothing is being done on Q related cases?
Did you ever stop and think that "That's all (you're) seeing right now!" is all that they want you to see right now?
Jack o' the Charts, it would be nice if you would stop trying to convince us that we're LOSING when we are quite clearly WINNING. I'm starting to wonder about your agenda, Jacky boy. With all due respect.
Bagster
I don't know if you remember but a few weeks ago I did a lot of research on the conditions under which one can use military tribunals and came up with the same points you make: it's for "war", broadly defined.
The USA's history with it (which is what I was investigating) happened towards the end of the Civil War, and eventually Lincoln was rebuked because he was applying it too broadly.
The operative idea was the same as you have called out in the section (i)(b)whenever the local civil authority is superseded in whole or part by the military authority of the occupying power The US Supreme Court's finding was that the US Court system was still functioning (in the North) even during the Civil War, so arresting civilians and trying them under military law was not warranted.
I would say that if the Justice Department is fully compromised, and the FBI is fully compromised, then you don't have the ability to try people in Civilian Courts any longer. (No prosecutors or investigators who are not tainted).
Let's see, we've had:
So, another 30 top ranking DOJ employees go the same route and the conditions for military tribunals we both discovered in our research could be met, that is: breakdown in the civilian legal authority.
It's great that you put that time into reading the Law of War for us, thanks. Your approach is actually even more useful, that is current law, mine was based on case law. But, they agree.
We know, Jacky boy. We've always known.
I am Jack's insidious agenda.
Bagster
DNC LIES: Despite Denials, Feds & FAA Records Show Brazile was in DC on Day of Seth Rich Murder
Donna Brazile, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, spent Monday vehemently denying she was in Washington D.C. on the day Seth Rich was murdered.
But by Monday night her claims were quickly unraveling. True Pundit reported D.C. Metro Police said an Intel drop by Conservative journalist Matt Couch placing Brazile and the D.C. mayor at the hospital after Rich was shot, was indeed accurate.
And on Tuesday, federal law enforcement sources said Braziles social media posts from July 10, 2016 the day Rich was killed were made from the Beltway, Not Seattle as Brazile has claimed. Brazile claimed Monday that she was on a west coast trip the day Rich was gunned down in the streets of D.C. at 4:19 a.m.
But sources said FAA records show Brazile boarded a Dulles International Airport flight on July 10th some 12 hours after the Rich murder. Brazile flew direct to Seattle (SEA-TAC) from D.C., records also show.
Even one of Braziles Tweets shows her geo-location in Arlington, VA on the afternoon of July 10 just prior to the flight.
Donna Brazile
@donnabrazile
With the political rhetoric as heated as it is right now, we need to remember to love and look out for each other. The alternative is awful.
4:04 PM - Jul 10, 2016 · Arlington, VA
Eight hours later after her 5:30 p.m. EST flight to Seattle, a Brazile Tweet showed her at SEA-TAC airport in Washington state, some 3,000 miles away from Washington D.C., records show.
Another week.... https://twitter.com/cnn/status/752350456698011648
CNN
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South Sudan: U.S. evacuates embassy staff after clashes in capital leave scores dead http://cnn.it/29u4Yhh
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9:14 PM - Jul 10, 2016 · SeaTac, WA
Brazile spent Monday hammering Couch, Tweeting and commissioning her lawyers to attack him based on the claim that she wasnt even in D.C. at the time of the Rich murder. Strangely, she did not overtly deny being at the hospital, however.
But Braziles departure from the Beltway was 12 hours after Rich was murdered, a fact Couch hammered home during Monday night on Periscope.
Q
One of our Qanteen Qittens, Cats PJs, has brought in a catch and deposited it proudly by the Steinweigh.
I’m glad she brought it in, because imho, it is quite a find. The link tells the stories of what REALLY happened at Benghazi, but also the history and the current state of affairs in the Las Vegas massacre last fall.
In addition to telling the stories, I will be interested to see if other FReeQs will think, as I do, that we may be hearing more from these two sources of Investigative journalism. In the LV youtube series, the second clip goes into detail of the efforts and standards they follow in order to bring proper standards of Investigative Journalism back into Journalism again.
It is entirely possible that I’ve been under the Steinweigh too much and others here may already know about the White Hat with Paladin, and the Critical Post - Chicago.
I have left it to you to read the Benghazi report on your own, which is not terribly long.
The interviews of Paladin by the Critical Post - Chicago are indeed rather lengthy, so I jotted a few notes to designate what topics are covered in them:
Has a very interesting story about truth behind Benghazi
Has lengthy story in form of video interviews in 8 parts on the LV shooting/inverstigation. A 9th interview was done bringing us up to Current events in July.
Part 1: overview
Part 2: discussion of the resources at the command of the White Hats Paladin and the Chicago Crititcal Post supporting their efforts to report the news properly with integrity.
Gets into discussion of the LV event having to do with seeking to promote debate/discussion about firearms control/confiscation, multiple shooters confirmed, but details not completely nailed down. Estimates now are between 5-20 bad guys.
Motives - Soros and others sold or shorted stocks beforehand. If gun control/security increases were brought in, then those companies would benefit from such a false flag.
White Hat says from beginning something went wrong with the FF operation. In some ways appears to be a drill. Lots of contradictions. Was it a drill gone bad?
Do companies need to be investigated, ie stock sales, etc.? Also a discussion of the hiring of crisis actors for drill purposes and need to investigate that aspect as well. Not being able to rely on the info being released by LVPD per court order. Contradictory.
LV was originator of surveillance, yet we do not have the information that should be available
and solid ballistics not available. - Conclusion is that the narrative does not match the evidence.
Makes point that not only is the MSM obviously infiltrated, but many aspects of the alternative media have also been infiltrated. This network seeking to re-establish the integrity to be looked to as a source that has the expertise to be able to have technical abilities and discipline to truly perform investigative journalism.
Part 3: - Autopsies
In January - redacted ones were released. Used several autopsy facilities, some from outside the area. Chain of evidence discussion.
42 of 58 did not have proper tagging. Other problems with descriptions. 38 of 58 were fingerprinted. Some did not receive date of death, some did not get time of death. Other irregularities discussed. Only 25 of 58 did not have internal exams. Ie, not full exams. Rigor mortis - only half had it described. Most done within 72 hours or so. Rigor timing is questionable.
Part 4 - Paddocks Autopsy
Eye color, hight, report varies with other descriptions from life. Date/Time of death irregularities. Paddock stated to be dead noon on 2nd, but other reports show he had to be dead on 1st. His ID confirmed by fingerprints - problem with that: supposedly had not had official fingerprints done. Why did they have fingerprints for match? Cremated the body. So chain and preservation of evidence has been destroyed.
Gets into discussion of Paddocks death scene pix.
Part 5 - FIT Report, Preliminary,
81 pages, text, timelines, lists, and pix. (Force Investigation Team) - Officer involved shooting is why it is done by the Internal Affairs instead of the Homicide division.
Timeline discussion - room service receipts, check in times, receipts, baggage, valet, etc. He had 3 rooms at the Ogden (hotel). Rifle purchase time.
Victim names, locations in the venue.
Discussion/description of the hotel rooms, and evidence
Pictures
Discussion of bullet strike on tank - some think impossible shot came from the Paddock location room 135/134. Some hold shots had to come from a lower elevation than Paddocks room. But one of Paladins team indicates it could be possible to fire the tank shot from Paddock’s location.
Part 6 - Evidentiary releases.
Suits filed for the release of evidentiary results from Lombardo. He has been releasing info over past few months - various forms of evidence - 911 calls, radio traffic, police helicopter footage, etc.
Witness statements, body cam footage. Interviews of concert attendees, hotel employees, people who knew Paddock, Campos, Huber driver - drove Paddock. One lady alleges she saw Paddock in an IHOP talking with a middle eastern man about Ruby Ridge, taking away guns, and other such topics, but other witness reports show him somewhere else at that time. And other sightings reported.
Heli cam and some body cam images do not have time stamps. Some audio has been blanked out. Lots of redactions.
Part 7 - Paddock Family
Paladin and his team at White Hat have done a deep dive on that family. Father was a bank robber. Escaped from prison when Steven was small. Brothers traced and discussed in this clip. Steven grew up in LA County. Worked for PO and IRS. 1988 He started selling / investing real estate. Sharon and Peggy are the wives. Peggy still uses last name, and they find no record of divorce. He had plane license and plane. Peggy also had pilot license.
Narrative says they were divorced. She also was involved with him in real estate investments. Media camped out in front of her house after the LV event - sheriff deputy states that she had not had any contact with Steven since divorce. Other reports have her saying she had been in contact with him. Truth is yet to be determined.
Bruce Paddocks interviews with Jim Breslow of Hidden Truth show Bruce was a mechanic.His statement all over the map. Owner of the garage he used found some of Bruces pedo/porno materials. Bruce arrested on 19 counts of pedophilia. Those 19 counts dropped (statute of limitations) - he was going to trial on another charge, but when it was supposed to go to trial, the charge was dropped. Paladin thinks they are trying to exercise leverage on Bruce, because that final charge could be resurrected at any time.
Discussion of other brothers activities. Not much info on brother Patrick Benjamin Paddock II. “Patrick Benjamin Paddock was an alias of Steve’s father.....so one of Paddock Srs boys is named for one of his aliases.
Part 8 - Court Cases
Mother waived her rights to Steves estate, so law suits arose. She stated she wanted the money to go to the victims. In the course of events, there was a subpoena to a bank for what was thought to hold a large account. The bank did not respond. The reason eventually was stated to be that the account was closed. Had thought initially his estate was 5 million down to the value of his two houses. Paladin states that the experts who give these estate estimates are not known to us. He had a lot of assets, but it doesnt appear that those are being pursued and that the victims are basically being whickered out of the funds.
For some reason there is now a suit filed against the victims in federal court, based on a 911 safety act. Event has to be declared a terrorist attack to make that law activated. LVNPD tried to stress initially it was NOT a terrorist attack.
Paladin wonders if there will be a conclusion the end of the process if the event will be declared a terrorist attack.
Part 9 - Current status
Waiting for the Final report from LVNPD in August. The FBI report should be out by October.
He speculates that the FBI will portray Paddock as an “angry white man,” and well hear a lot of psycho babble based on brain analysis etc.
Paladin states that Lombardo has done an excellent job at obscuring the evidentiary releases with redactions and confused details. Sometimes info released and then other relevant material to that release is released later. So you get incomplete data.... then weeks later more comes available, and have to wade through a huge pile of data to correlate.
There were two separated incidents: The concert venue/hotel Mandalay Bay was one, and the second simultaneous to that was located at Giles and Ali Baba. The second even was later on the strip.
Then there is radio traffic of reports of shots along the strip starting about 11:00 - AFTER the Mandalay/Giles events. 911 calls coming in indicate the callers are in hiding. So shooters are not at Mandalay/concert venue.
Strip was locked down until early the next morning. If Paddock, the threat, had been neutralized, why close down the strip? Businesses stood to lose a lot of money by not being open, and yet they werent.
They continue to track the law suits - especially the one where victims are being sued.
They are still awaiting the LVNPDs and FBIs reports.
Yes, every day. That's the assumption I make. Other people are more focused on "this is what we will see", which I am very appreciative for their work to bring that forward, and I agree that 'what we will see' is a big focus of Q.
But I still think it's ok to note "this is what we have so far".
Q tells us over and over that Huber is a large part of the plan.
Are you trying to tell us that Q is bogus?
No, of course not! Because he is a large part of the plan we should watch him carefully for other clues. His approach in the drug case is fascinating. Some one ODs. This happens a lot in the USA. In 2017 there were 30,000 OD deaths. Let's say 15% are people ODing on prescriptions (probably not that many). That means that for every one of the OTHER 25,000 ODs there should be a criminal conviction of the person or person who gave them the drugs.
This has not happened routinely ever in the USA.
Huber's not just sleep walking through his job, he's acting like a good QA engineer and saying "what is the root cause of this (OD death).
So, it is because Q has told us Huber is important that I want to closely watch him (use Google Alerts), and report back to the team when I find activity of his.
"That's all I got" certainly doesn't mean "that's all there is", it' means that's all we're being shown right now.
Losing or winning? It's a war it goes back and forth. The biggest win lately (for me) was the Wolfe indictment, and the idea that Papadopoulos might withdraw his guilty plea makes me really excited.
The Manafort conviction was sort of meaningless, though it will be trumpeted by the Left as a bid deal.
The Cohen case? Well it's interesting that A) Mueller gave it to SDNY to bring to closure and B) the guilty plea doesn't include an agreement for him to cooperate (inform on Trump).
So, in both cases what do you really have? Trump hired some high powered guys, and they were crooks.
Manafort had worked for all sorts of other politicians, going back to Ford. He is the poster child for the GOPe -- so even the respected uncles of the GOPe are corrupt, NY developers are corrupt, NY lawyers are corrupt, NY Taxi companies are corrupt -- I AM SHOCKED, SHOCKED THAT THERE IS GAMBLING GOING ON HERE !! -- To some extent it's starting to look like Trump was the only honest guy in the high-flying City of New York real estate industry.
It's like saying "Trump employed mobbed up unions".
Well, there is no other kind in NYC, so of course he did because it's illegal (literally) to build with non-Union labor in NYC.
The law required him to hire criminals, the culture was full of criminals.
So Muller got his convictions today, but they are hollow, like so much of his stuff.
I still think it's good to keep track of. I am "Jack of the Charts", after all.
And, of course I fully expect you to trust Q over me!
Cheers!
PS: did you check out that other thread I pinged you on.
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