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"We will torture you and your families until you say what we want you to say!"
Posted on 10/30/2017 8:25:23 AM PDT by yoe
Politico has posted the ( 12-count indictment) handed up against Paul Manafort and Richard Gates on Friday by the Washington grand jury hearing evidence brought before it by Robert Mueller’s team of all-star prosecutors. The charges all relate or derive from Manafort’s business activities that predate Manafort’s involvement with the Trump campaign (although various related deceptions are alleged to date). I don’t believe that Gates ever had any involvement with the Trump campaign to begin with.
The charges have nothing to do with collusion. As Andrew McCarthy (anticipated) this past August, they are evidently intended to put the squeeze on Manafort to provide evidence against principals in the Trump campaign.
Up-date: A man described as a former foreign policy adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign has also now been revealed secretly to have pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to the FBI about his outreach to Russian officials. The former foreign policy adviser is one George Papadopolous, whom I have never previously heard of.
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Trying to flip him.
Also controls what he knows about the Podesta Group.
How is a 30 year old a foreign policy advisor? Unless he’s one in a million like Condaleeza Rice or that’s the title they hung on him.
Business deals from years before his work with Trump show nothing even close to collusion. Now that the side show is over Mr Mueller, let’s talk about Uraium 1 and the so-called “Trump Dossier” collusion...
Squeeze him ,maybe they can get Kevin Spacey ,LOL
Can Trump pardon him if bogus charges are brought?
“...Keep indicting more people till one of them makes up a lie about trump and gets immunity...”
The swamp will keep trying. And there is no shortage of LIES about Trump already (understatement). The MSM swamp is already putting Trump’s name into every announcement about Manafort, et al....pursuing the ignorant sector.
Mueller’s team is largely investigators who are experienced in financial crimes. If Manafort engaged in money laundering and these guys have unravelled the layers of transfers to various entities, they’ve got him dead to rights, and it would be malfeasant to negotiate a solid case of financial crime that they could prove against testimony that likely would amount to nothing on an unrelated matter (i.e. “Russian collusion”).
Here’s an analogy: Suppose they’d found child porn on his computer while looking for evidence of collusion. There is no doubt they would have charge him with that, even though it was incidental to the collusion investigation. And citizens who don’t believe anyone should be above the law, that’s the way it should be.
My suggestion to Manafort is to immediately release a statement that he is coming out as gay.
The pardon to power is there to protect against just such witch hunts. The original intent wasn’t to give drug dealers a second chance despite how people view things today.
ROTFLMAO.
Gay and of Cherokee origins.
He can also say that he is donating any ill gotten gains to planned parenthood
From what I’ve seen, Manafort was a legitimate target for a number of reasons — and these indictments seem to support that. They contain references to mortgage fraud allegations that were not included in the charges, and that particular angle may relate to his purchase of a condominium in Trump Tower back around 2008.
Assistant vice president at the bank....Foreign Policy Advisor
A Presidential pardon is tantamount to admission of guilt.
This actually became an issue with Sheriff ________ (someone jog my memory) recently, when a judge faced some difficulty closing a case involving him precisely for that reason - Trump pardoned him, simultaneously validating grounds for the case, and vindicating him.
If Trump pardons Manafort, that will absolutely be construed by the Left as practical proof that Manafort is guilty of the indictment.
As I understand the case, these are from activities back in 2005. Statue of limitations is 6 years from the later of commission or discovery. Critical to the time line is when the FBI investigated and decided not to prosecute. If the case was started prior to 2012, then the statue of limitations has already run out.
"We will torture you and your families until you say what we want you to say!"
All this just makes me mad at Jeff Sessions. He is the biggest obstacle in getting the Trump agenda accomplished.
I guess the POTUS and VP are having lunch with the AG today. Will be interesting to see if we find out anything that goes on there.
Let the prosecutorial waterboarding begin.
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