Discussion: How The FISA Order Against Manafort Spells Big Trouble For Trumpworld

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Good story.
On an earlier thread involving legal fees there was some indication that Manafort was in the same relatively impecunious boat as some of the other “players”. Considering how long he’d been Singing in Sibilant Cyrillic for his Supper, and the amounts involved, even assuming that a lot of it was pass-through in a Bagman role, I get the impression that he’s pretty well fixed. Of course, that doesn’t mean he will enjoy spending the money. It does mean that he’s most vulnerable taxwise, but notice nobody’s talking much about whether the tax angle is front-burner, beyond the Muellers having plenty of expertise in that area.

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Other than having the Cub’s break theirWorld Series slump, I have NEVER hoped for something as much as the downfall and imprisonment of the Drumpf Crime Family.

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he’d be well advised to not fly on small aircraft…

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Manafort won’t rat on anyone. The reason Trump pardoned Arpaio so quickly, and outside of proper protocol was to signal his friends that they would be safe to lie, and safe to be convicted for it. Trump would just pardon them.

This doesn’t erase their legal bills, but keeps them out of prison and Trump in the White House.

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“To obtain an order from the FISA court, the government must establish probable cause that an individual is the ‘agent of a foreign power’…”

But, of course, “brissy” and the rest of the trolls have assured us…

“There’s absolutely nothing to this Russian hysteria cooked up by delusional Democrats.”

Because, you know, eleven federal judges on FISA – all appointed by John Roberts – are total dupes.

(Or something.)

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Huh? How could this possibly spell trouble at all? Trump has now been proven 100% correct that Obama wiretapped his campaign for political advantage!!!11!!1111one!!!1111eleventy1!!!

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/09/19/trump-vindicated-manafort-wiretap-report-could-boost-trumps-claim-after-months-media

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Those people excel at one thing and one thing only—grasping at the wispiest of straws.

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Not My President does not have the intellectual capacity to separate his responsibilities to this nation from the view of everyone around him being indicted for illegal activities conducted specifically with the aim of putting him where he is. He will go Scorched Earth on his way out, starting with N. Korea. He is an illegitimate failure. He knows this, and he is determined to leave as big a permanent scar on this world as he can. If the world fucks with him, he will fuck the world. Consequences mean nothing.

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Well, they just didn’t get the “Russians are our friends” memo the Commander-In-Cheat sent out.
Trump was new on the job so accepted Ben Carson’s offer at the Cabinet Meeting to mail them out.
They’re under the front seat of Ben’s car. Except for the French Fry stains, they’re still usable.

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Well, the wispiest of straws still has much more girth than their pitiful little tallywhackers. Easier to grab on to.

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Not just one thing:
The Billing Dep’t is the envy of Goldman Sachs.

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That’s why Mueller teamed up with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Presidents can’t pardon state crimes.

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To all the Susan Sarandons, Bernie Bros. and Sisses, Jill Steinians, Gary Johnsonians, people who didn’t vote, and assorted deplorables:

#Still think both parties are the same?

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Manafort better be careful he doesn’t fall down an elevator shaft onto some bullets.

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On his back

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I cannot begin to state properly how much I want to see Trump go down in obloquy and disgrace orders of magnitude greater than the dishonor he’s already brought to the Office of the Presidency. He really deserves to spend the rest of his life in solitary, in a max security federal prison. Don’t forget this, from just last February:

The intelligence community is preparing to “go nuclear” in the wake of revelations about the Trump campaign’s contact with Russia, a former spy has warned.

Security consultant and ex-National Security Agency (NSA) employee, John Schindler said he had received an email from a senior intelligence agent discussing the President.

It opened with the words: “He will die in jail”, he said.

You know, a “Yes!” ending like this

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Do you think the joint chiefs would carry out an order to nuke NK or even attack with conventional weapons without any kind of provocation on Kim Ding Dong’s part?

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Actually, no. I think we’d see a Seven Days In May – and this time, we’d be rooting for the generals

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