[Alberta's Child]

I didn't convict Manafort of anything. I simply raised it as a possibility. It would certainly explain a few things about why his criminal case proceeded the way it did.

This may have been the best campaign ad of the 2016 election. I believe it came out in late September or early October of 2016. It would have been a comical joke if it came out much earlier because you could have had Manafort's photo posted at almost every point to personify what exactly "The Establishment" is ...

Trump vs. The Establishment

[thoughtomator]

Re-read your post #29, you definitely have Manafort convicted for essentially “something, but I am not sure what... yet”.

Which is the left-wing narrative that enables their support of the egregiously political Mueller prosecutions, precisely.

The reality:

1) There is no evidence whatsoever that the Manafort-Trump relationship was anything but above-board.

2) There is no reason to believe that any prosecution of Manafort would have occurred in the absence of a Manafort-Trump relationship.

These two facts, considered together, make a Manafort pardon far less than the political suicide note that it is being made out to be.