Manafort’s deals are not ‘sleezy’. They are conducted every day via international banks.
The fact that a lot of international business persons are ‘sleezy’ does not make their trade sleezy. International law firms are utilized and lawyers draw up the contracts.
For example, the head of the Sinaloa mafia family looks like a respectful banker as do the heads of most of the narco families in Mexico City. They own hotels, resorts, and they trade in oil. They are sleezy but they don’t look sleezy.
If an American is buying oil from Mexico, chances are the first meetings of the principals will include a well-dressed murderer and extortionist, only the American won’t know this background unless the intel is briefed.
Same thing in Syria, Qatar, Iraq, etc.
Manafort is a good guy that trades in commodities that are sometimes controlled by bad guys. It’s not his place to demand clean trading partners unless the State Dept prohibits the trade based on sanctions or terrorism ties, etc.
Manafort is sophisticated enough to use lawyers to know who and who not to trade with.
The reason he was harassed is because his lawyer told Creep Mueller that their interrogatories were too broad and not specific enough. In other words, no fishing expeditions allowed.
So Mueller had his grand jury indict a Manafort ham sandwich and then launched a terror strike into Manafort’s DC home.
If Trump fires Mueller, he will be accused of obstructing justice. We can thank Sessions for that.
Sessions should fire Mueller and then resign.
I don’t care what Manafort has been doing or not doing. Nobody elected him to anything.
But Mueller doesn’t have to prove anything about him. He can use the corrupt and unconstitutional power he was given to financial ruin Manafort until he agrees to say anything Mueller wants him to about Trump. That is Mueller’s game - an economic rack. HE is an evil, unprincipled S.O.B. You can judge a tree by its fruits and Comey is a protégé of Mueller’s.