Manafort was inserted into the Mighty Mouth campaign by Stone, a mighty mouth in his own right.
As to “time is needed to allow passions to cool,” Big Paulie just wants to rack up as much “time served” credits against his upcoming 300 year sentence as possible. LOL
Respectfully -
Think you’ll find that Manafort was ultimately brought aboard by a certain Tom Barrack, Mangolini confindante, campaign sachem and uber-capitalist.
It is not a stretch to expect that voters who supported Donald Trump would be predisposed for Mr. Manafort.
So, I guess fair trials are impossible for everyone. No need, then, for any laws or courts.
That leaves Donald, King of All America.
Manafort added, “I mean, if the Rodney King trial was held in Simi Valley, where old LAPD go to die, why can’t mine be moved somewhere where people are more likely to like me?”
I love that “time is needed to allow passions to cool.” A judge is going to look at this and think, who are the people needing their passions cooled? To me, this implies that the judge would not be able to rule properly based on facts. I don’t think his lawyers thought that through.
“Mr. Smith. Why do you have a Russian accent?”
Incoming prisoners and the visitor’s list. Gonna have to watch for Page, Flynn, Sessions, Tillerson, Stone, Sater, Kushner, Trump Jr. et al., too.
Flip now! Or forever hold your manacles!
This thing won’t be over for years. As long as his financiers hold out, even after the trial, there will be appeal upon appeal.
Most of us will be dead before he serves a day, unless the penalty insists he serve during the appeals process.
This is what my wife and I have thought from the beginning, and it explains Manafort’s resistance to flipping to avoid spending the rest of his life in jail. If he believes (with good reason) that, should he flip, the rest of his life will be extremely short and spent looking over his shoulder, it makes it considerably less attractive.
Defense lawyers always ask for evidence. You can’t infer anything from something that always happens. The sun rising in the morning doesn’t prove that dinner will include potatoes.
He’s serving time right now. He’s locked up pending trial.
And to quote Martha Stewart (prisoner #55170-054):
“And this is a Good Thing…”
I don’t think he’s ever getting out again.
He can appeal - the judge can deny him an appeal bond just like the judge finally decided he’d violated his pretrial bond and put him in jail.
He gets credit on his sentence for every day served for all the good that’s going to do.
Yeah, but that’s not the penalties for the crimes alleged. That’s the penalty for being stupid and engaging in witness tampering.
O for heaven’s sake, does it matter really? He’s locked up regardless.
we’d be looking in other treasure troves not yet revealed to us… remember one of the strings leading to Gen Flynn was the involvement of his son… the Repubs have been tempted by big money for years, some Dems too… There is so much more to see… where are the lines between witting and unwitting perps when the campaign was only amateur hour
It’s the specific request that I’m talking about. Every piece of evidence you request/receive has to be assessed for admissibility and incriminating value. The calculation on the likelihood of conviction changes as a result of that analysis. This particular request is asking for hard evidence of meetings and communications that would, if admissible, be incriminating. That the gov’t may have such evidence will weigh heavily on defense attorneys. That’s the issue. The attorneys themselves might not know how ‘guilty’ their client is. If they think that he’s ‘more guilty’ than they realized, they have to inform the client and let him know the options.
That right there is at least as plausible a reason for requesting it. I would say more plausible.
“It is not a stretch to expect that voters who supported Secretary Clinton would be predisposed against Mr. Manafort or that voters who supported President Trump would be less inclined toward the Special Counsel,” the filing said…
Maybe its not a “stretch”, but it is an insult to state that the jury would determine a defendant’s guilt/innocence bases solely on their political party.
And it is an insult to the judges to tell them they should schedule the trial in a place “predisposed” to like the defendant.