"Evidence or argument relating to Mr. Manafort's work for then-candidate Trump's campaign in 2016 or the Special Counsel's investigation of the campaign's alleged collusion with the Russian government," the Manafort team wrote in a June 22 motion, "is wholly irrelevant to whether Mr. Manafort's personal income tax returns were false, whether he willfully failed to file reports of foreign accounts, and whether he conspired to commit, or committed, bank fraud."
Mueller's response was two-fold. On the issue of collusion, the special counsel, in a motion filed July 6, flatly said, "The government does not intend to present at trial evidence or argument concerning collusion with the Russian government and, accordingly does not oppose the defendant's motion in that respect."
To those Trump opponents who had hoped Mueller would unveil evidence of Trump-Russia collusion involving Manafort, it was a sharp and stunning admission: there's no collusion in the case against Manafort. (link)
As pointed out by many observers, the fact that Mueller is pulling out all of the stops with regards to prosecuting Manafort, while being woefully unprepared (and disinterested) in prosecuting the Russian company he charged with actual election crimes... shows that this has become a personal issue against Manafort, who was twice previously investigated by the FBI and never charged.
One has to seriously wonder why this is so personal for Special Counsel, and whether it's really worth tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to prosecute old crimes of people unrelated to the probe, for what appears to be fully personal reasons.
21 comments:
Delusional beliefs are a mental disorder.
fully personal reasons.
York is about as valid as Starship Alex Jones.
Obama was born in Kenya and Putin is more important than NATO allies.
An attack on one is an attack on the others. Trump is going to take the United States off the attack one and all list because Pooty Poot wants it.
Are you an American?
As usual, Rog is too stupid to debate CH so he spams.
York is a respected journalist and is no given to hyperbole.
Unlike some gin soaked contributers to this blog.
Roger id there something you wish to debate? Or are you just tossing stones from behind the fence?
Surely the mueller investigation has not gone as you expected.
Lisa Page former FBI Lawyer refuses to talk to Congress. Queer for a dirty leg not to want to tell her and Stroak efforts to WIN the Election for Hillary.
...Germany has a lot of work to do—the Bundeswehr, Germany's defense ministry, is suffering from multiple readiness crises in a culmination of years of cost-shaving and poor management decisions. And the latest symptom to emerge of that crisis is the dwindling number of actually functional fighter jets that the Luftwaffe, Germany's air force, can actually call combat ready. For the Eurofighter Typhoon, Germany's main fighter aircraft, that number is four—out of a total of 128.
Germany will never learn...
It’s an uphill battle for Democrats. They’ve known that from the start. If there is good news to be found here, they seem to have a genuinely good shot at holding onto a lot of the Senate seats in these Trump-won states. If they can do that, while flipping Arizona and Nevada from red to blue, they can conceivably get those 51 votes in the next Congress.
The American people are not going to give Trump an opportunity for a dictatorship.
It's the moving goal post... When people (like myself) originally argued that this Manafort case had nothing to do with Russian collusion, people like W.P. and Roger gave it the old...
Well you don't know that. Mueller is way smart. Like smarter than, like Einstein and Sheldon Cooper put together. He will show you a connection and bring it all down. You just wait and see. Just because he hasn't shown anything "yet" doesn't mean he doesn't have the proof!
Yada yada yaha...
Now that I have been proven factually 100% correct and Roger and WP have been flat out proven to be gullible slurpies, they suddenly act as if the Manafort case is still valid (even as it has nothing to do with the Russian probe).
"It's the moving goal post..."
...again.
they seem to have a genuinely good shot at holding onto a lot of the Senate seats in these Trump-won states.
Somebody has been munching on the peyote again.
Dems look poised to lose ND, MT, WV, MO. Winning all of them is dreaming.
Omg, Funny, please stop ole Rog.
You told us months ago of the coming "BLUE WAVE" and you adied it had "hurricane force" behind it.
Now;
"Roger AmickJuly 11, 2018 at 10:04 AM
It’s an uphill battle for Democrats. They’ve known that from the start. "
Why the change?
nice revisionist history, alky.
'from the start' we were told a democrat victory was all but assured, the only outstanding detail was their margin of victory and the number of seats they'd capture. 'from the start' the house flipping to dem was a slam dunk, and the senate was definitely in play and by some models within reach.
'from the start' that is.
then trump started winning.
and winning.
and winning.
and winning some more.
as in fucking bigly.
and then your blue wave that 'from the start' we were assured would be the case, proceeded to turn to shit.
A common happening with Social Democrat prediction.
You have Deep State Throated. Even though it's not true you think it feels great.
Staring Sarah Palin
MT the dem has a ten point lead.
ND is getting slaughtered by the Tarrifs. The D will hold on
WV the incumbent is favored by 5 points
MO toss up but the white suburban women are not going to sit out this time.
You can't have a debate with someone who believes that the President has been framed.
One has to seriously wonder why this is so personal for Special Counsel, and whether it's really worth tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to prosecute old crimes of people unrelated to the probe, for what appears to be fully personal reasons.
"You can't have a debate with someone who believes that the President has been framed"
If only you were smart enough to convince him otherwise.
You're not.
If only you were smart enough to convince him otherwise.
You're not.
shit, he can't even walk unassisted.
"Now that I have been proven factually 100% correct and Roger and WP have been flat out proven to be gullible slurpies, "
That's one of the dumbest things you've posted in my absence. You can't even remember what I DID write - which was and still is 100% correct - so you make up this half-baked nonsense and attribute it to me.
I told you that Manafort's charges were NOT specifically about the collusion, and that they didn't HAVE to be. And nothing about the direction of this case indicates otherwise, except the long-shot tactics of Manafort's lawyers, which are getting shot down again and again.
Cue the straw-man arguments and denial.
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