Paul Manafort headed to jail after witness tampering allegation
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office convinced a federal judge on Friday to revoke the bail of President Donald Trump's former campaign chief after he was accused of witness tampering.
The move dramatically ratchets up pressure on Manafort, 69, as Mueller continues to investigate whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Paul Manafort headed to jail after witness tampering allegation
Yeah, I honestly expect him to flip soon after this.
Paul Manafort, American Hustler
A decent read on his history if you want to see how screwed he is at this point.
See you in high sec, dead man, hopefully to remain there for the rest of your miserable life.
Fresh fish! Fresh fish! Fresh fish!
Manafort, 69, did not appear to react to the ruling beyond a nod to his attorney. He was immediately taken into custody and walked into a hallway behind the courtroom. He gave a quick wave to his wife as he disappeared from sight.
A short time before the bail hearing, Trump downplayed his connection to Manafort. "Like Manafort has nothing to do with our campaign," the president told reporters at the White House. "You know, Paul Manafort worked for me for a very short period of time. He worked for Ronald Reagan. He worked for Bob Dole. He worked for John McCain, or his firm did. He worked for many other Republicans. He worked for me, what, 49 days or something. Very short period of time." Manafort worked for the Trump campaign for 144 days. He joined the campaign in March 2016, became campaign manager three months later and resigned in August 2016.
Do yourself a favor and read the entire story because it's fucking delicious
DJT in six months:
"Seriously, folks. I had nothing to do with my campaign. It was the best campaign. It wasn't my campaign. Other people were running it, sending me around - I had no control. Zero. You know what input I had? On the podium. The campaigning, the ads, all of it: that was the campaign. The stuff I said on the podium? That was the voice of America. FOX News. Great people. The best. You want to know what America's thinking: FOX. Want to win? FOX. So I had nothing to do with my campaign. It's unfair to say I'm responsible for it. If you want to blame someone, blame America."
Trump's criminal cabal believed themselves above the law. They are quickly learning otherwise. Next up for arrest: Michael Cohen.
Satire is dead.
I hereby dub him Troglald Dump.
The dumbest part of this is that he hasn't been sentenced. He's in jail awaiting trial because of his own actions. There has been no sentencing yet, but he can create alternate facts because his braindead followers won't fact-check anything. Poor little coffee boy Manafort is being treated poorly.
I used to know a retarded kid in my infant school class who lied like that when he'd been caught shoving plasticine down the one toilet we had, or some shit like that. His twitter honestly reads like the way that kid used to talk. He's in prison now for being an utter dumbass.
"But her emails" is now "but the mob"
like fucking clockwork
when was "the mob" brought into this? Donnie saying too much without realising it?
What's the likelihood that he'll be pardoned by Trump?
Let's all remember that the White House's official position is that the President's tweets are considered official speech from his office.
It sounds like Trump already threw him under the bus. I doubt Daddy Don has anymore use for him.
A pardon for Trump would be tantamount to political suicide. It would immediately trigger the impeachment process and more than likely guarantee a criminal conviction on obstruction grounds. So unless Trump gets extremely desperate, the likelihood of a pardon for Manafort is very low.
With a republican congress? Hah...
Maybe after midterms.
Well there's one, but he's currently out golfing.
If Manafort can wait it out until November, and Trump opens the floodgates to permit Russian hacking of election rolls en masse (alongside mass internet/domestic propaganda campaigns), and refuses to enforce the law to prevent such actions through the executive branch, and Republicans decide that they're okay with foreign infiltration of the country so long as they can keep their safe electoral seats, pardoning him wouldn't matter. If Trump embraces Russia and uses their election-falsifying experience to rig the midterms and preserve Republican control, it wouldn't matter if he pardoned Manafort, because even if Democrats bring up impeachment proceedings, they'd never ever again have the majority they'd need to successfully impeach.
That's a worst-case scenario. Trump's already axed our cybersecurity division. At that point, the most we can hope for is mass violent protests, a military coup, or the wholesale collapse of the Union.
People really don't realize how easy it would be for Trump to go full Putin - if Trump and Russia can continue plugging sock-puppets into office and keep a loyal Republican majority, it's over. Election hacking - not the potential of modifying voter rolls or using social media propaganda, but full on falsification of votes - could guarantee Trump a loyal set of Republicans that would never, ever, ever go against him, as long as the checks come in and the gays and Mexicans get kicked out.
We are dangerously close to the total collapse of American democracy. I hope Trump's too stupid for it to work, and that his unpopularity will drive more voters than the Kremlin can fake without becoming too obvious. Otherwise, we're going to end up in a situation more terrifying than most people realize - no checks, no balances, no accountability in government. Following that, Trump could just pack the courts, or ignore them outright - without a legislature that holds him accountable, who'd be there to stop him?
Speaking of which:
Trump Golf Count
On a positive note, there's *almost* no chance of them successfully enacting a removal of presidential term limits because then a stinkin' Democrat might get elected some day.
On the pardon note: I don't think Manafort (or the others) will be pardoned until after any investigation concludes. There are exceptions to the self-incrimination protection, and one of them is "you have been pardoned of the crime in question and thus can never be punished for it" (as a subset of the immunity exception). So if Manafort gets pardoned, he can then be compelled to testify about crimes he was involved in, or be held in contempt (which would basically be imprisonment until he testifies or dies, whichever comes first).
That may be why Trump's been giving some high-profile pardons - as a signal that he'll pardon them once any danger to himself has passed, as long as they keep their mouths shut.
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