Posted on 03/14/2019 3:35:36 AM PDT by Helicondelta
ABCs chief legal analyst Dan Abrams predicted that President Donald Trump will pardon his former campaign chief Paul Manafort in the days after the 2020 election.
Is it just me being cynical I think Manafort is going to get pardoned by Trump, I dont think any of this matters, Abrams said this afternoon while on his SiriusXM show.
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Does this legal analyst actually do any analysis? Or just he just insinuate that OrangeManBad? Because, you know, anybody can do that.
IF I could, I would.
You’all know it’s only Trump they are after and hitting anywhere they can... if Manafort had not been connected to Trump, he would be a free man... and for what they charged him with, there are too many walking free that have done worse.
Unfortunately, Trump won’t be able to pardon Manafort in the New York case. A s s holes in New York continue to try to shut down Trump.
Mistake if he does. Manafort is a stone crook. He is going to jail for criminal acts he was committing long before the Trump campaign, during the campaign, and after the campaign. He tried to use Trump to further his own criminal activities. This is not a witch hunt. This is a crook who got his just deserts. Pardoning him links the campaign with money laundering, tax evasion, financial fraud, and everything else Manafort did.
I think the Donald should pardon Manafort to spite them all.
If Manafort didn’t join the Trump admin, most likely none of these prosecutions would have happened. At a minimum, he would not have faced prosecutors with the fire power of Mueller.
I’m hoping that a judge finds prosecutor misconduct occurred during these show trials and disbars them.
Trump could go in a different direction, and just commute the sentence, whacking off 50-percent of the jail-time. If the NY AG wants to go for state crimes and charges....Trump can’t pardon or commute that....but he could send feds after five or six big Democratic players in the city, letting them fall into a pit, and someone could suggest that the NY governor pardon off Manafort, for Trump to pardon the guilty NY bigwigs.
Manafort will be pardoned along with others right after Mueller closes up shop.
Our founders' intent was not for state laws to enable an end run around the Constitution. New York is essentially going after Manafort for the same crimes which he was just sentenced on.
“Our legal system cannot allow convictions obtained by coercive unethical means stand.”
By the way, I just saw on a news feed that Weissmann is stepping down from the special counsel.
This ius the old media game. If it happens, I said it first. If it doesn't happen, no one will care what I said..
I'm hopeful that this is one of the chickens that have come home to roost.
I just read that Weismann is leaving Mueller to go to a TEACHING JOB IN NEW YORK.
Which begs the question:
What kind of education are our young people getting?
I hope this gets a lot of attention. It gives me the creeps just thinking about it.
Trump will pardon him or commute his sentence after the November 2020 election, win or lose. Manafort would never have been tried except for his association with the Trump campaign.
Nellie Ohr used Manaforts FBI file and inserted him into the dossier in order to draw some phony link to Russia. Mueller used the FBI file to pressure Manafort to compose a phony connection to Russia. Manafort refused and now he is being crucified by a corrupt justice system.
The Podesta brothers were not prosecuted despite working with Manafort in Ukraine. And Tony Podesta did not register as a foreign agent either until after the fact. John Podesta had shady dealings with the partial ownership of a Russian company, which he transferred to his daughters name.
Show me the man and I will show you the crime. Manafort is jailed while the Clintons, McCabe, Comey, Strzok, Lisa Page, Baker, the Ohrs, Lynch, Powers, Rice, Obama, Clapper, Brennan, et. al. remain free. We have a two tiered justice system. And Manafort was given a much harsher sentence than is usually the case for similar crimes.
Or at least once Manafort's lawyers deal with the New York double-jeopardy indictment. In the meantime, as bad as his healthcare is in the federal prison, it would be worse in New York State. Meanwhile Tony Podesta roams free. (Google "Tony Podesta art collection" if you don't think the wrong one is in prison.)
Weissmann had so many conflicts of interest that he should never have been on the team in the first place. The recently released Ohr testimony may have triggered Barr demanding that Wessmann step down.
IMO many of those indicted by Muellers team may have legitimate legal grounds to file a suit against the government for unfair treatment. This was indeed a witch hunt. There was no basis to appoint a Special Counsel. No crime had been identified. It was a counterintelligence investigation. Mueller and his team had many conflicts of interest that created the appearance at a bear minimum of a partisan investigation.
He should pardon him. He looks weak if he doesn’t do it. It was a GD witch hunt.
I hope he doesnt pardon Manafort; the thuggish tactics of the Mueller-Weissman Gang notwithstanding, hes still a criminal. I do wish Trump would avoid people like him and Roger Stone. They bring no value-added to the mix and are more throughly than theyre worth.
I have much more basis for my statement, than he has for his.
Yet was investigated prior to his association with Trump and got a pass.
Only a fool believes this Special Counsel is a legitimate law enforcement exercise.
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