Posted on 03/07/2019 4:49:03 AM PST by Monrose72
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will be sentenced by a U.S. judge in Virginia on Thursday for bank and tax fraud. The fraud was uncovered during Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election. Manafort could face what effectively would be a life sentence in prison for the eight charges the veteran Republican political consultant was convicted of by a jury in Alexandria last August.
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Exactly so.
Life in prison is utterly excessive for those offenses. Another sign of a police state. Most murderers don’t get that.
He is already facing a life sentence, what part of he is in his seventies dont these morons understand, he is already in for 30, do they really think making it 50 years really matters?
We should be rejoicing if a cheat is nailed. Evil deserves to be punished whether they are on “our side” or not.
Stalin would be proud of this show trial.
If you think Manafort is the evil one then you are nothing but a Dupe for the left.
Not THE evil one. But an evil person.
I agree. It will become like it became with Clinton and the public will rebel.
And even if the DONALD gives a pardon the SDNY court is ready to convict him on sumtin else !
Weissman and Mueller have both shown their true colors as they have both convicted/tried to convict innocent people— some of whom have DIED in prison B4 they were granted overturning of their convictions !!
May they both take a month to die slowly and be told how there is a line to pi$$ on their graves !
Evil deserves to be punished whether they are on our side or not.
You consider Paul Manafort “evil” for trying to keep a little more of his money from the government?
If you lack the ability to recognize the circumstances that led to the Manafort conviction I would suggest you lack the ability to recognize all the components that are the “basis” of the Manafort conviction.
It doesn’t matter how he was found as long as it was legal. Show me where it was illegal.
Manafort was intrumental in securing the nomination for the President. This is political payback. Its pure evil. The president must pardon him and start locking the real criminals up.
And yet John Podesta still roams free.
Democrats rigging the election = Manafort.
Elite Democrats never see prison for their crimes.
Cheating on taxes is not a crime.
Raising taxes is a crime.
It doesnt matter how he was found as long as it was legal. Show me where it was illegal.
The point is not weather it was legal or not (in your case it’s the “only” aspect of the case your willing to acknowledge).
If you see it only as a legal issue that’s where you will be stuck while you willfully overlook the fact the government came to the conclusion years ago the case wasn’t worthy of pursuing.
The “only” reason the charges were pursued against Manafort was to use them as a weapon against Trump and if you’re okay with that you and I just don’t see governments role In the same light.
A m*zzie who killed humans would have a shorter term.
Would you have a problem if an Obama associate was similarly used to get Obama?
Would you have a problem if an Obama associate was similarly used to get Obama? There were a lot of people used similarly in the White Water probe. Not much flack from us then.
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