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The Manafort Indictment: Not Much There, and a Boon for Trump
NRO ^ | 10/30/2017 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 10/30/2017 2:30:52 PM PDT by mojito

The Paul Manafort indictment is much ado about nothing . . . except as a vehicle to squeeze Manafort, which is special counsel Robert Mueller’s objective — as we have been arguing for three months....Do not be fooled by the “Conspiracy against the United States” heading on Count One (page 23 of the indictment). This case has nothing to do with what Democrats and the media call “the attack on our democracy” (i.e., the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 election, supposedly in “collusion” with the Trump campaign). Essentially, Manafort and his associate, Richard W. Gates, are charged with (a) conspiring to conceal from the U.S. government about $75 million they made as unregistered foreign agents for Ukraine, years before the 2016 election (mainly, from 2006 through 2014), and (b) a money-laundering conspiracy. There are twelve counts in all, but those are the two major allegations.

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From President Trump’s perspective, the indictment is a boon from which he can claim that the special counsel has no actionable collusion case. It appears to reaffirm former FBI director James Comey’s multiple assurances that Trump is not a suspect. And, to the extent it looks like an attempt to play prosecutorial hardball with Manafort, the president can continue to portray himself as the victim of a witch hunt.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: 2006; 2014; andymccarthy; collusion; manafort; mueller; muellerindictments; muellerinvestigation; trump; witchhunt
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McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, explains why the charges against Manafort will be difficult to prove, and are entirely irrelevant as regards any Trump-Russian "collusion."

Mueller's gone on a fishing expedition, and caught himself an undersized bass.

1 posted on 10/30/2017 2:30:52 PM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito
“Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.”
~Lavrentiy Beria~
Head of Joseph Stalin’s Secret Police

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!


2 posted on 10/30/2017 2:36:35 PM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE THE RESISTANCE !!! VIVE LA RÉSISTANCE!)
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The Left is going crazy with glee on the individual who pleaded guilty of lying to the FBI.

They think this is Watergate 2.

3 posted on 10/30/2017 2:36:58 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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This from the #NeverTrump National Review?!? I figured they would be celebrating this and claiming Trump would be going down any day now...
4 posted on 10/30/2017 2:37:20 PM PDT by apillar
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To: mojito

Tried to open this site. This is what I got:

Harmful web site blocked


5 posted on 10/30/2017 2:37:32 PM PDT by pugmama (Ports Moon.)
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To: mojito

sadly, LIV’s don’t read Andrew McCarthey
media narrative persists
only fire will fight this fire


6 posted on 10/30/2017 2:39:20 PM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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Don't know what to say, the link worked for me.

NRO is a well-known publication, not an iffy website.

7 posted on 10/30/2017 2:40:29 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Well they shouldn’t get too excited if this story is true: https://medium.com/@rossdaniels/breaking-john-roberts-white-house-source-george-papadopoulos-evidence-provided-by-the-white-house-630eae043b6e


8 posted on 10/30/2017 2:42:43 PM PDT by hotsteppa
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To: pugmama

Worked for me.


9 posted on 10/30/2017 2:47:07 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: fortheDeclaration
Yes, the Papadopoulos arrest. A good rule of thumb is that when leftists hyperventilate there's nothing there, as in this case:

“It appears that the Papadopoulos emails quoted in the Mueller filing were all turned over to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. One of those emails showed that then-campaign manager Paul Manafort shot down the idea of a Russia-campaign meeting.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/30/george-papadopoulos-sought-dirt-on-hillary-in-hop/

10 posted on 10/30/2017 2:55:02 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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If you strike the king you had better kill him, because he bats last.


11 posted on 10/30/2017 3:01:07 PM PDT by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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Thanks for the link, that’s hilarious. More sad lefty faces in 5...4...3...2....


12 posted on 10/30/2017 3:04:41 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: pugmama

Tried this from other sites. Same thing. I am on someone’s hate list.


13 posted on 10/30/2017 3:27:50 PM PDT by pugmama (Ports Moon.)
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Mueller didn't think much of him

He already pleaded to a misdemeanor with highest time is 6 months

14 posted on 10/30/2017 3:32:10 PM PDT by scooby321 (o even lower)
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Now is the time for Jeff Sessions to get off his dead ass and indict Clinton NOW!

The Democrats are turning our system into a Banana Republic. Since they started it, it is time to jail every Democrat we can get our hands on.


15 posted on 10/30/2017 4:04:40 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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When you shoot at the King, You better damn well kill him.


16 posted on 10/30/2017 4:05:04 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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Holy Crap! It just hit me like a ton of bricks. The reason that Hillary has been so insistent that the Russians must have colluded with Trump and that Paul Manafort was central to this collusion was.......

BECAUSE MANAFORT WAS COLLUDING WITH THE RUSSIANS FOR HILLARY WHEN HE WORKED FOR THE PODESTA GROUP!

Manafort might be guilty of money laundering, but he was laundering money to get it to Hillary! Hillary knows this, so she "knows" Manafort must have been doing this for Trump!

17 posted on 10/30/2017 4:28:05 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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......Manafort might be guilty of money laundering, but he was laundering money to get it to Hillary! Hillary knows this, so she "knows" Manafort must have been doing this for Trump!

I have been wondering since Jezebel started itching about the Russians helping Trump, IF the Russians had cut off their funding to her... Personally, I think the Russians were backing Bernie.

18 posted on 10/30/2017 4:30:27 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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Remember how it was Hillary who announced the “reset” with Russia? That’s because she knew that Russian operatives/lobbyists were eager to buy favors and had lots of cash to spread around. Hillary operated the State Department as a branch office of the Clinton Foundation, and the prospect of getting her hands on all that cash made her and Bill dizzy.


19 posted on 10/30/2017 4:33:01 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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“Not Much There”

I was watching some of CNN. You’d think Trump had gone to Russia himself with a suitcase containing a billion in cash.


20 posted on 10/30/2017 4:42:35 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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