“You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort’s bank fraud,” Judge T.S. Ellis III said during a morning hearing. “You really care about getting information Mr. Manafort can give you that would reflect on Mr. Trump and lead to his prosecution or impeachment.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.df382b859086
The case against Manafort takes a hit if the judge throws out the Manafort case. The investigation won't all the sudden stop, change or suffer because of one small part of it.
Sure it does. It would validate Trump's claim that this is a witch hunt and open the floodgates for Russia to further interfere with our elections.
Which hinders Muellers investigation how now? Is he all the sudden going to stop? If it's taken this long for stuff to come out (and stuff keeps coming out), this isn't just a 1 trick pony here. Ass clown can call it a witch hunt all he wants. But me saying I look like Brad Pitt 100 times a day doesn't all the sudden make me look like Brad Pitt.
And let's keep in mind this is only the VA case against Manafort. There is also a DC case against Manafort. barfo
regardless of what the investigation is about or how it's going, it's a bit concerning to me that an investigator who has the powers that he does seemingly answers only to one man (Rosenstein, who said he wouldn't fire him even if Trump told him to), who looks increasingly like he's got--at the very least--a conflict of interest in the case.
1. How many men do you want him to answer to? And which men? 2. What's the conflict of interest? barfo
or just maybe he doesn't like money laundering and tax evasion....while investigating campaign finance concerns they stumble on shady deals involving Ukrainian and Russian money scams....sort of like how they got Al Capone.....Trump has not been very transparent with his financial dealings to the point of lying about ever even spending a night in Moscow....it's a house of cards from where I stand....let them fall where they may....didn't work for Nixon...Trump claims he wants to drain the swamp but he's knee deep in the swamp...rich crooks shouldn't get a free pass because they wear fancy suits
Mueller, Rosenstein, and Cohen are all lawyers. I think so is the judge. Lot's of lawyers in the case. Should we really have the future of the presidency in the hands of lawyers? Also... Hillary is a lawyer.
I don't know...it feels like every other part of government has multiple checks and balances. the only person overseeing this investigation is one who may be fired for his role in the subject of it. Look, it's not just about this investigation, but it's a microcosm (right in front of us) of the potential for unchecked power. similar to overreach of executive orders or judicial activism or if the military decided to run itself without civilian oversight...
Huh? You mean like a judge and jury? Or impeachment by the House? I see lot's of checks and balances on Mueller.
I see nothing that even comes close to logical or in step with the intent of the Constitution. We do not have a crime. We do not have evidence of a crime. Mueller is not answerable to the chief executive, any elected office answerable to the people, or directly answerable the people. That is fucked up.
1. Trump, Sessions, Wray for starters. Duh. 2. Moronic question, the answer(s) to which have been testified to in Congress, in several courts, and on a daily basis in every conservative news outlet.
