I’ve got it D1, D2; David Dennison!
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Oh damn - the “Deep State” just place this pole so that I would walk into it - Damn corrupt Deep State!
My interpretation of what MAGA hat guy yells at the camera.
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You know, when you’re wearing two ankle monitors and are under two separate federal indictments, you really should be able to figure out that prosecutors are going to keep an eye on you.
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the filing - https://drive.google.com/file/d/14YFpZPUP89YAqkunNs78z5i46Z711y2E/view
A fun read.
h/t @schoolboy
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Okay, I may be very slightly motivated by nasty feelings and schadenfreude, but I think there’s a strong possibility that Paul Manafort is laying in his bed right now, a thousand miles from sleep, recognizing that this might be the last night he’s ever in it. In the words of one Taylor Swift, like ever.
Sad!
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No ankle monitor, no ankle monitor, you are the ankle monitor!
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But, as @van_hammersly quoted from somebody’s twit, how did Trump know this was coming?
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There is a big shell game going on. Mueller can indict Manafort for all kinds of things related to the connections during the campaign (aka “collusion”) but does not want to go there because the act of NOT indicting Trump would be trumpeted by the orange one. And he is not going to list Trump until he interviews (or fails to interview him) so as not to be “judging Trump before he interviews him”
So Mueller will keep tossing on new charges, and has evidently decided that Manafort will be more willing to see reason from inside a jail cel.
What is interesting is that Trump has backed away from Manafort recently, so perhaps has some idea this was coming.
Its also possible that Mueller has know about this for a long while (note the communications happened in Feb 2018) but something extranious (threat of pardon? sending a signal?) is causing him to do this now…
It certainly sends a signal to those close to Trump not to talk to each other, and is a good counter signal to Trump’s recent “I can pardon people” messaging.
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But, as @van_hammersly quoted from somebody’s twit, how did Trump know this was coming?
[/quote]I’m guessing Rudy still has some FBI friends in SDNY.
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Oh, man, between this and Trump’s signaling that he’s persona non grata (as @rickjones mentioned upthread), Paulie has got to be feeling the squeeze. I hope he flips like the big fat money-laundering fish that he is.
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Not sure how they would have had insight to Team Mueller’s goings on.
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OMG, Trump will pop an artery if Manafort’s release is revoked.
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And yet, who else do we know of who tries to “influence” people to do or say things to make himself look innocent and blameless? Who else dictates misleading statements and has spokespeople lie in order to send a signal to others as to the preferred version of events?
I just know I’ve read and heard about someone like that.
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I hope he tries to flip, Mueller says, “Nah, we good”, and Manafort rots in prison for the rest of his days while the whole world knows this brilliant eleven-dimensional-chess shady lobbyist dude attempted to sell out his boss, but he was too stupid to execute.
I know that’s not how this works, but it’d be cool.
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Ah hah…found y’all. I was wondering where everyone went. I started to think I was talking to myself there for a minute on that other thread.
I think Manafort’s been disowned by tRump rather recently if I’m not mistaken. He’s been characterized as someone below that of a coffee boy at this point.
Poor Paul Manafort, we hardly knew ya?
Rot in hell. I do hope he doesn’t end up in Club Fed when he’s finally convicted.
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Director’s cut. I like it! 
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Well, it’s not at all hard to imagine that Person A (or D1, or whatever) told a news outlet, which contacted the WH for comment and now has a tear-soaked print-ready story ready to run, but destined never to.
It’s not obvious to me that Mueller could tell Person A “You can’t talk about this to ANYONE or else I will lock you up”.
Manafort has been a dead man walking for a while now.
He flips and he’s going to get whacked on the outside.
He doesn’t flip and he’ll get whacked or die in prison.
He had every reason to burn every dime throwing legal spaghetti at the wall.
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No shit. But remember, tRump hires only the best. The best dumbfucks, that is.
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