Manafort’s lawyers will drag this out for at least 4 years with appeals if he is actually found guilty. There’s always the chance of dismissal due to prosecutor error as in the Cliven Bundy trial. As long as Trump and Sessions have control of the Justice Department, I’m not ruling anything out. He won’t sing, no way. He will not cop a deal unless he receives a slap on the wrist.
Manafort is still a multi millionaire and I suspect he has some cash put away that even Mueller will never find. With the right Republican judge down the road, who knows what’s possible. I know he has been a part of the Republican party since 1985 when Manafort, Stone and Atwater opened their firm. As long as Republicans are in control, he will get every consideration.
I doubt he’ll do time. If he does, it will be at a comfortable minimum security facility for no more than a couple of years of easy time. I would not doubt he would get passes to go outside the facility a few times.
Good God, what a shameless liar Manafort is. Absolutely shameless.
It’s obvious he’s putting all his chips on the possibility of a presidential pardon.
Good God, bonvivant, you are depressing. I hope to God you are wrong.
If anybody deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars doing hard time, it’s this son of a bitch.
Me too.
Whatever happens, it will be a long time before we know anything.
Sorry, I’ve never been accused of being an optimist.
Mueller is already teabagging him.
Yeah. No.
I think Manafort will eventually plead out. He’s in bigger trouble than your post indicates and he’s not going to get a pardon.
Trump would rather throw him under the bus than pardon him.
Here’s a 1985 photo:
http://us.static.lalalay.com/upload/images/real/2017/04/20/republican-operatives-paul-manafort-roger-stone-and-lee-atwater-in-1985__880636_.jpg
Roger Stone founds a lobbying practice with Paul Manafort; Trump becomes one of Stone’s first clients. In the 1980s, Trump hires Manafort as his lawyer on gambling and real estate issues. By 1988, Stone is one of Trump’s closest advisers.
If he throws him under the bus, it will be a bus with very high clearance and foam rubber wheels. Sessions and Trump will find a way to help Manafort via the Justice Department instead of a pardon. Not ruling a pardon out though.
They can’t help Manafort.
And let me tell you why he’ll plead out. It’s like this - I did an appeal for a guy who turned down a deal for 25 years probated. The jury gave him life to do.
He’ll make a deal. His family is at risk right now.
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. - Eliza Tabor
Hope ya’ll have noble souls.
The powerful and wealthy love Trump. They own enough of Congress to control it. If the Democrats are lucky enough to win control of the House, the wealthy will buy just enough Democrats to foil any attacks on Trump.
Trump is like crack cocaine to the media.They’re addicted and don’t want the Trump circus to stop.
Trump and Sessions will have their finger on the scales of justice because they can.
Manafort, Trump and the Republican party go way back. You don’t throw someone under the bus that can reveal damaging information.
And he can fly faster than the speed of light, and he can walk through walls and he is invincible!
Goodnight Tena.
buono notte!
Well, he couldn’t find the light switches in the White House early on, so walking through walls may have been more of a by product. As far as moving at the speed of light, I did not realize a golf cart got up there, must be a hemi.
Consider me doubtful. 
Yup, just keep screaming how innocent you are right up to the moment you plead guilty.
Another week or 2 should just about do it. lol
He can plead out any time before a verdict is rendered. I’ve seen them wait until the jury was picked; I’ve seen them decide to plead after the defense rested; who knows when the bolt of lucidity will strike, but I’ve seen really dumb defendants get smart and plead before a verdict came in. Manafort is arrogant, but not stupid.
I agree, but that moment will come sooner or later, preferably sooner.
I like 2 weeks - that works great for me. Anytime works the best for me. 
Kill joy. lol
We were on a roll here. lol
Let’s not forget Flynn.
Manafort “This does not alter my commitment to defend myself …"
We know. What WILL change your commitment is your desire to avoid spending the rest of your life in a jumpsuit. You know Trump. Have you ever known him NOT to betray an associate?