Posted on 08/17/2018 8:08:28 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The case that Bob Mueller has brought against Paul Manafort has nothing to do with Donald Trump or the 2016 election. It is irrelevant to any significant political issue. But Democrats worry that Mueller’s prosecution of Manafort for years-ago tax evasion may fail, thereby making a laughingstock of the special counsel investigation in which they have invested so much. What happens when Democrats are afraid they may lose a political battle? Things get nasty.
Politico reports on the latest, shocking developments in the Manafort trial:
Paul Manafort’s trial will stretch into a fourth week, as jurors headed home Friday without reaching a verdict for the second straight day and the judge overseeing the case alluded to “threats” the jury may be receiving.
“I had no idea this case would incite this emotion,” U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III said in an open court hearing, responding to a motion from seven news organizations, including POLITICO, seeking access to sealed materials related to the trial that would have publicly identified the jurors.
Ellis denied the motion, telling the courtroom that jurors were “scared” and “afraid.” As a result, Ellis said, he didn’t “feel right” releasing the names of the 12-person jury.
Good for Judge Ellis. Why do you suppose seven news organizations–all liberal, presumably–wanted to know who the jurors are and where they live? They are worried that the jury, having heard the evidence, may not render the “right” verdict, i.e., the one that helps the Democratic Party.
So they want to know who the jurors are so they can apply pressure on them through mob action, newspaper denunciations, online harassment and so on. This is how today’s Democratic Party operates. If the jury fails to render the Democrats’ preferred verdict, what do you suppose Maxine Waters will suggest Democrats should do to the jurors if they venture out in public?
UPDATE: Via a commenter, these are the Democratic Party news outlets who want to know the names and addresses of the jurors who have not yet fallen into line for the Democratic Party: CNN, NBC, the New York Times, Politico, the Associated Press, Buzzfeed and the Washington Post. That tells you every single thing you might have wanted to know about what is going on here.
I think it’s a combination of both. Intimidate the jurors and let the Soros/Clinton thugs know who they are so they can learn where they and their families live for harassment purposes.
I’m not sure, but didn’t they keep the jurors anonymous in the Casey Anthony case?
Well, the blood is in the water. What would you do if you were a juror now?
Retrial!
If I was on that particular jury, I would use ‘reasonable doubt” to the max and go with the concept that our system is based on the premise that it’s better to let a 100 guilty men go free than to wrongly convict 1 innocent man...
So the commie “progs” are making the jurors an offer they can’t refuse? Damn Nazi bastards are out of control.
Even if the names are never officially released, the enemedia will dox them just the same. They absolutely will photograph each and scour the Internet with facial recognition software in order to exact retribution on any out of line juror. The left’s mission will not be deterred again by any free person.
On Thursday, media cries about violence possibly being instigated against them. On Friday, media tries to instigate violence against average Americans serving on a jury. Yes, they are the enemy of the people.
Why do you suppose seven news organizations–all liberal, presumably–wanted to know who the jurors are and where they live? They are worried that the jury, having heard the evidence, may not render the “right” verdict, i.e., the one that helps the Democratic Party. So they want to know who the jurors are so they can apply pressure on them through mob action, newspaper denunciations, online harassment and so on. This is how today’s Democratic Party operates. If the jury fails to render the Democrats’ preferred verdict, what do you suppose Maxine Waters will suggest Democrats should do to the jurors if they venture out in public?
Thanks Rummyfan.
Jury Tampering
The Party of Tolerance, doing what it does best.
This is why Judge Ellis has to have bodyguards. It’s why he won’t let the (Democrat) media have the names of the jurors. He knows they’ll share the information with their party’s blackshirts (called Antifa), and he’s not going to allow that.
The longer the jury takes to reach a verdict the better it is for Manafort.
That’s exactly right....
Nothing is guaranteed to anger a judge more than lawyers and other assorted low lifes playing games in his court.
Depending on his mood that day, the lawyers may find themselves hauled before a disciplinary board and the outsiders may find themselves in jail for contempt of court and any other charges that an imaginative and angry judge can press against them.
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