It is now up to the defense team to “DEFEND.” Then it will be up to the judge to provide instructions to the jury.
It is my hope that Mueller and his minions will be handed their head by the Judge and the Jury. If a perfect world, maybe the Jury will find Manafort guilty of some trivial offense and the Judge will allow him to go home based on time served.
We can hope.
It is a “real case” that was not prosecuted at the legitimate time in the legitimate way.
If “real” means a sincere attempt to serve blind justice, then, No, this is NOT a real case.
While we are at it, let us have every unpursued legal matter concerning every member of the Trump campaign, no matter how spurious, going back to adolescence, revisited with extreme vigor.
Michael Caputo said he would never serve another Republican campaign. Good for him. I do not blame him one bit.