You must not listen to Rush. He has been explaining this for two years.
I think you’re talking about Cohen.
Manafort was found guilty of 2005 tax shenanigans that had nothing to do with Trump. (And I thought the IRS had no recourse after 7 years! I count 13 years!)
Maybe refine your question?
Manafort isn’t being prosecuted for anything related to the women being paid off.....That’s the other guy - Cohen - the poor excuse for an attorney guy!
You are thinking about Cohen. He is saying he is going to plead guilty to a crime because he has an idiot for an attorney - one Lanny Davis.
Or Mueller has something else on him. Or he is out to get Trump.
This would seem to fall under the same category that ‘not guilty’ is not the same as ‘innocent’.
The attorneys have created a legalese ‘crime’ that both sides agree to. It is more a contractual determination than a criminal one.
Sort of the same as CJ Roberts rewriting a portion of the Obamacare law to make it legal as a tax.
That said, I am also in a quandary as to how he can be charged with and plead guilty to a non-crime crime. It sounds like something out of a Medieval inquisition.
Who ACCEPTED the Guilty plea? Was Mueller’s gang of thugs the ‘Judge and the Jury?’
For example, even if the hush payments were legal as a matter of campaign finance, how did Trump account for them on his tax returns and in his business records and communications? Was the money paid from Trump's personal or from his business accounts? And are there any juicy details? Are there any new legal issues raised by the material in the National Enquirer's secret files? What witnesses are there who can be menaced or charged in order to get the testimony needed to nail Trump?
Mueller and his team, with Rod Rosenstein's blessing, have gone far beyond traditional prosecutorial norms. We are now watching Soviet-style justice in action, based on the principle that all one needs to do is point out the man and the state will find the crimes it desires to find.
But it was committed by the porn star by extorting money from Trump. Extortion by threat of blackmail is a statutory crime! Paying money to the blackmailer never is. Tucker just made this point a few minutes ago on his TV show.
I’m assume no you actually mean Michael Cohen. Manafort has pled to nothing
Cohen’s lawyer, a Clinton hack, convinced him to do so
They’ll plead guilty to anything the prosecutor can dream up because they’re threatened with destruction of their own and their family’s lives if they don’t go along - as the judge in the Manafort case said, they get them to not only sing, but to compose too - or as someone else said long, long ago, an unscrupulous prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.......
Well, first of all, it was Cohen, not Manafort.
Second, please see my essay on this topic.
You mean Michael Cohen.
He did it because his Clintonista”lawyer” threw him under the bus for the benefit of the Klintoons and the Dhimmicrap Party.
If the judge allows it, you can plead guilty to anything.
Cohen pled guilty to a non-crime that he labeled a crime to try to save his sorry ass because he’s been so dirty for so long that he will watch Manafort being wheeled out in a casket before his term is up...Cohen is the ‘composer” they have been searching for - one so vile he’ll say anything they want, and even kill a few kids if need be, to try to save himself.