Personally, I am hoping that the judge feels no sympathy at the sentencing. He deserves every year of this.
In Trumpâs impeachment trail, his attempt to pardon Manafort would be laughable and even more stupid than ânormalâ
19 years is way too kind.
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Pardoning him is the real National Emergency. Bigly!
This country really needs to see Manafort convicted and imprisoned for his role in Russiaâs coup against the US.
I know Capone was jailed for tax evasion, and Iâm sure weâd all readily grant that job #1 has to be removing traitors and foreign agents from power. But that job will undoubtedly be made easier if (or when) the culprits are finally, formally recognized as such. It appears that Manafort was instrumental in an attack on this country, and heâs neck-deep in a conspiracy to subvert our national interests and advance Putinâs expansionism. Itâs hard to introduce those facts into the national dialogue when we canât even get them into evidence.
In any case, glad to see Manafortâs crimes catching up to him.
Hey Paulie, If you canât do the time donât do the crime.
(I hope some one gives Paulieâs ostrich jacket a proper and respectful disposal.) (And those stupid plaid suites become signal that the wearer is a criminal)
The sentencing judge is TS Ellis, not Amy Berman Jackson who was the one who put Manafort in jail for witness tampering. Mentioning this because some have alleged Ellis has a pro-defense bias as demonstrated by his mistakenly describing the rules for bank fraud (which may have led to the one juror holdout), and his beating up the prosecution.
I think Manafort was willing to subvert this country and itâs values to save his own neck from Deripaska. He literally sold us all out for $10 million loan forgiveness.
Manafort is an American traitor and he deserves having the books thrown at him! As far as Iâm concerned, he can die in prison, while holding onto the secrets that he continues to lie about!
If that goofball, Judge Ellis, is giving the sentence, I wouldnât trust it would be on the long side. Manafort shows up in court looking haggard, in a wheel chair and hoping for some sympathy. There really shouldnât be any for him, heâs been a criminal all his life and thought heâd always get away with it.
From what Josh and some other folks out there are saying, itâs remarkable that Manafort would have tried to play these games with the special counsel and and risk exactly this essentially life sentence. He has a very, very strong motivation to protect the people he lied for. Who, and why? And yes we can joke about polonium tea ha ha but like they say down south this is as serious as a heart attack. This guy was a key player in a conspiracy against this country and its ability to conduct its foreign affairs in its own interests and nobody elseâs. He wonât fully confess to what happened. We have to hope he finally cracks or the information comes out in other ways. You think about it, Paulie, while youâre doing that time, because what youâve done so far hasnât worked all that well.
Absolute nut case. How heâs allowed to preside as a judge over parking tickets let alone one of the most important cases in the countryâs history is mind boggling.
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He has demanded that [prosecutors] âreign in your facial expressions,â not âfurrow your browsâ and âstop rolling your eyes as if to say âwhy do we have to put up with this idiot judge.ââ At one point the prosecutor had to question how he could be scolded for both not looking at the judge and rolling his eyes at the same time.
Hereâs hoping when tRump goes to trial he wonât end up with Ellis. What a circus that would be.
Is it really so mysterious? Manafort was concealing the collusion with Klimnik in order to keep his chance of a pardon open.
This was discussed on Rachel on Wednesday night, I think it was.
Yeah, heâs pretty much cooked. His days on the gravy train are at an end.
Well, he is 69 years old. 19 years of incarceration puts him at 88 years old.
For what I can tell, the Judge is pretty pissed off at him. She might have some mercy and have his old pal Roger Stone sent to the same prison to keep him company. They have 50 years of rateffing, dirty tricks and thievery to remember and bring each other up to date, that they are not to run out of conversation.
Maybe he can get some longevity via gene therapy from a donor he knowsâsomeone who might live to 200.