I’m really hoping his disapproval numbers go up because that’s what will prompt Republicans to begin questioning their loyalty to him (setting aside why they ever gave it in the first place).
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Even if they don’t go up much more - a continuing shift in the strong disapproval from the once strong approval - should also send some chills. There is a serious growing enthusiasm gap - inverse to the last general and previous two off year congressional elections.
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Borowitz is churning out stuff as fast as the news breaks:
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If it takes this indictment and all the other stuff that will probably be coming to make some folks disapprove, I don’t think too much about their judgement.
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Manafort is thanking his lucky stars he’s so far only gotten home confinement. White collar crimes while white has its perks…He can go out for court appearances, to see a doctor and church. I assume he has given up his passport and hopefully his cell phone. If he was remanded to jail, he’d get one phone call a day I presume. Does he get a pretty ankle bracelet or have they waived that? Not bad though for fucking up American democracy and subverting an election to benefit that orange scumbucket here and that red scumbucket o’er yonder.
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Which is why it makes a lot more sense for Manafort to talk and potentially go into witness protection. Because even being convicted doesn’t guarantee Putin wouldn’t decide to kill him at some point in the future. Plus, a 15 year federal prison sentence is probably a death sentence for a 68 year old man who has lived a life of luxury.
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Not sure of Manafort’s motivation in pleading not guilty on all counts. One was for failure to register as a foreign lobbyist, which he acknowledged by retroactively registering (after he was caught, which seems to the normal process within Trump’s inner circle).
It’s an obvious negotiating strategy.
There are only two things a person can plead - guilty or not and nobody pleads guilty without a deal and there hasn’t been time for a deal.
You can change a not guilty plea to guilty anytime up until the verdict comes in.
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You deranged left wingers fail to understand that he’s about to use this trip to pivot. (What Mark Halperin would say (snidely) … if he still had a job.)
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Keep in mind that if Manafort flips he’ll have to answer to the Russians as well. 20 years of life in prison may be better than being treated like a Russian journalist.