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 Muellers team of all-star prosecutors. The charges all relate or derive from Manaforts business activities that predate Manaforts involvement with the Trump campaign (although various related deceptions are alleged to date). I dont 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 Trumps 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Mueller is making a wish sandwhich. Hes got the bread, now wheres the beef?
Presidential pardons are only for federal crimes, not state crimes (but most Governors have that pardon power for their state)- and president pardons exclude impeachment.
Manafort is looking at federal crimes but Trump is not that close to him (only ran Trump’s campaign for 2 months). Also, crimes alleged predated Trump campaign; has nothing to do with the campaign: why pardon him?
“President Trump hasnt the will to cut him off.”
with Trump’s money and position what are his lawyers doing to protect him? they need to go on the offense and charge Sessions with appointing Rudy Gulliani as special counsel to go after Mueller, Comey and Hilliary. keep them so busy fighting off real charges of malfeasance and criminality that they have little time left to waste on the fairy tale of Trump collusion with the Russians. give them a broad mandate to go after whatever crimes they my uncover, and unlimited resources to bring indictments against Mueller, McCabe, Rosenstein, and Hilliary.
Makes me wonder if Mueller got this phone call “They are getting to close to the truth on Uranium One, so damn it, indict someone already!”
Why did Manafort leave the campaign? Did Trump fire him?
It's time to name a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clintons involvement in the phony dossier, uranium one, and the 33 thousand emails she illegally removed from government servers.
It would be amazing how fast Mueller would wrap up his work as soon as hillary and company are being investigated by special prosecutor.
... and we know their “foundation” set up a Canadian affiliate so they could run hundreds of millions (if not some billions) of dollars from foreign “donors” through that route, where apparently Canada does not have our reporting requirements. The Clinton Crime Family Foundation in Canada needs to be investigated most thoroughly, too. It was clearly set up to “launder” foreign donations in a way that would be (they hoped) opaque to US oversight.
Yes of course, and what you say is all well & good. I was merely answering a question regarding presidential pardons. I guess I should have stated that they are limited to federal charges & convictions only to make it more inclusive. But I was referring only to the pardons that a president has authority over.
I hope Robert Mueller's team has cute uniforms. If those clowns are going to imitate a Monty Python skit, they should look the part.
If Manafort doesn’t have a deal, he’s an idiot. He probably needs security, too.
Podesta Group, Manafort Mediated Russia-Obama White House Uranium One Deal
http://www.oann.com/podesta-group-manafort-mediated-russia-obama-wh-uranium-one-deal/
“Mueller is now on a roll to end President Trump. Looks real bad and President Trump will not set up a new Special Counsel and shut Mueller down. Mueller will do it by inditing many others to force release of information. He is building a case to impeach Trump and might make it. President trump hasnt the will to cut him off.
The President was warned about this a long time ago.
What a deal. Manafort gets to be arrested and have his reputation and business ruined. He drives a hard bargain.
No, Manafort was dirty. Had a dozen off shore money laundering companies.
This makes your previous post nonsensicsl. Who did dirty Manafort supposedly have a deal with? How does Mueller indicting him pressure Mueller? Mueller does whatever his swampy heart desires, with Rosensteins full support.
If Carter Page is the FBI informant, he and Manafort can make Clinton, Inc.’s lives living hell, finally.
I think every charitable foundation that is in any way associated with Congress or high level federal officials needs to be investigated. Both parties.
Mulehead indicting Manafort further pressures the Podestas-—whom he worked closely with.
And, yes, I’m right. Tony Two-toes just resigned.
absolutely!! “charitable” foundations are probably very very swampy in many cases, especially when associated with politicians (of either party). One of our PA Congressmen was recently convicted of offenses which included laundering taxpayer dollars through his “charitable foundation” ... the esteemed (sic) Chaka Fattah:
https://hotair.com/archives/2016/06/21/rep-fattah-guilty-of-racketeering-and-fraud/
this kid is a leftist plant for the purpose of falsely implicating Trump in criminal activity. IMO.
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