Thank you. The so-called narrow exception is simply the ***presidential pardon*** of a conviction made in federal court may be retried in state court. I doubt very seriously it’s constitutional.
They are after Manafort. They need to crack him. By ‘they’ is meant the power syndicate driven by many mafias, unions, controlled human assets, and most Democrats.
The FISA is going to start to bring them as in ‘they’ bring them all down.
Manafort has to be cracked in order for Democrats to get on the offensive.
The Mueller witch hunt team, notably led by the notorious Andrew Weissmann, were seeking to sink Manafort with 22 YEARS in prison for lying or forgetting or being careless with a mortgage application, with tax paperwork. They put him in solitary confinement and tried to have him shipped to a prison where he could be pressured to crack. Manafort was ruined personally and financially. The Judge in his sentencing would not accede to the witch hunt demands because he saw the sentence the prosecution was pushing for did not even come close to fitting the crime. These were crimes that normally get a fine, and at most 6 months prison.
They thought the FISA IG Report would be out Friday the 18th but the date is now indefinite. The Democrats were planning an ‘event’ to dominate the news cycle for the rest of the week into next week, use the propaganda state media to jam the FISA disclosure information so to speak. Biden let it slip at the debate that something important had been planned. Look at his face when he said without context or meaning the phrase “the 17th” and watch as he looks down as if to kick himself. He has an onset of dementia. The Democrats will throw him under the bus. Something was supposed to happen on the 17th but not now because no FISA report.
Then today the NY state media came out with Cuomo delivering a clear message to Manafort that a Presidential Pardon will not free him from the Hell they pinned on him.
You’re right about the intensity of their efforts to get Manafort; they see him as the Rosetta Stone that would unravel the Trump presidency — if only they can break him.
And clearly these vicious partisans will stop at nothing to remove Trump and regain power. And I mean nothing. That in itself makes them a very dangerous and existential threat.
The Democrats seem to be in a near state of panic over the impending release of the IG FISA report and the Barr/Durham investigation. No doubt they have planned accordingly to create a distraction as a smoke screen and are enlisting the media’s cooperation by downplaying any damaging revelations.
But I’m very skeptical about Horowitz who seems to be more of a guard dog than a watch dog. And I worry that Barr will, in the end, basically just “indict” the agencies involved for “not following established procedures and/or allowing political influences to drive investigations” (or some such bureaucratic BS) instead of holding the seditious individuals accountable.
Its a lot easier to do the former than the latter. He can just make some recommendations to “improve accountability” and be done with it. Spygate has so many moving parts it will take an enormous amount of work to put an air tight case together, I would think.
That said, if the cabal is not punished this will all happen again and the political weaponization of federal agencies will have been essentially legitimized.
I would be interested in hearing your take on the FISA report and Barr’s investigation? In a very real sense the fate of our country as a nation of laws depends on the outcome of those investigations.