Joe Biden says the Republicans will come around and start doing the right thing and he looks forward to working them.
Joe Biden is showing his true Republican stripes…he’s never been a Democrat.
When will Democratic Party wake up? The people want real difference from Republicans and their gangster leaders!
Barr should be in prison for Iran-Contra…not out working for Trump’s Russian mob outfit!
You want treason: you got it…Trump, Barr, McConnell, Chao.
Just “helping him get his story straight”… More evidence of conspiracy and witness tampering.
Is it possible that Trump is doing this with no intention of ever actually pardoning Manafort? That Trump’s afraid Manafort is about to flip and is trying to save his own skin by encouraging false hope in Manafort?
OK, you got your daily “I effing hate Dems” rant on, can you now leave the rest of us alone, tovarishch?
I am hoping that the Manhattan DA will insist that the Feds pay for the extra expense of transporting Mr Trump’s Very Unfairly Treated Friend from Pennsylvania Federal Prison to NYC for his court hearings and back. If I am NY I expect on the taxpayers behalf that the Federal Govt be forced to pay the bill. NY doesnt have to send a prison van and marshalls to PA and back. So, let Trump and the Federal Govt bear the expense, instead of Mar A Lago’ing NYC for the cost of his Royal Largesse.
If I were a conspiracy theorist I might wonder whether Manafort might accidentally be released from federal custody instead of transferred to stand trial.
Elect Mobsters
Get Mobster behavior
It seems highly unlikely that Manafort will ever flip. I think he’d be more concerned about the Russians being “not thrilled” with him flipping, than he would be about serving “hard time” in Allenwood Low.
Maybe the DOJ should ‘intervene’ to make Rikers less corrupt and dangerous. Just sayin’…
I think you fat-fingered the “n” key.
Very wrong…
Biden shows his 1980’s Democrat stripes… you know, the folks that learned all the wrong lessons from Reagan’s presidential election victories.
“Maybe if we work with them on their awful policies people will admire us for it…”
In my opinion, current democratic leadership in Congress, DNC and the Campaign committees still is influenced by the wrong lessons.
That too
They are rewarding Manafort’s silence up till now and teasing a reward for future silence. How is this not part and parcel of obstruction of justice?
Disclaimer: I have not read the book, only seen the Karloff and Mel Brooks versions, but
From what I understand m-- and it’s certainly possible that I misunderstood – in the book, Dr. Frankenstein’s creation was actually intelligent, to the point of having philosophical conversations with at least one other character.
Which means he would have about 80 IQ points on the Traitor-in-Chief. So, please apologize to … Mary Shelley? Boris Karloff? I dunno, someone.
right out of Putin’s playbook. Vlad is hacked in to all the control rooms. He talks to Paulie thru the smoke detector.
Well, when I first read the inaccurate headline on TPM’s story, that is exactly what I thought had happened. Bail means release on some kind of monetary security or your own recognizance. I don’t think even Barr can do that since Manafort is serving a Federal Sentence, and I am sure were the NY Court asked, they would deny bail. But until he maxes out on his Federal sentence, he is not getting “bailed out” or accidentally released by the Federal BOP who are very punctillious in their calculations of your time and any good time credit you might be entitled to. They have a back up location in Texas somewhere that takes several days between imposition of sentence and designation to a Federal BOP facility to make the calculation. Probably have a bunch of guys with crew cuts, wearing white short sleeved shirts with pocket protectors who all sit around and argue about decimal points and stuff.
If trump’s afraid of a flip he is more likely to put Manafort somewhere Putin can access him
No one should be held at a place like Rikers. But, since everyone else is, Manafort should be there too.
It sure is nice to be rich and white!
This is a tacit admission that Rikers is not a safe place for inmates.
Calm down, folks. One of the prime responsibilities of the number two person in the Justice Department is to supervise prison assignments. All part of a day’s work.
And I have a bridge to Brooklyn you might be interested in buying.