Why Pence?
Giuliani is spinning this development so fast that he’s dizzy. But then again, he was already dizzy. Nutty as squirrel poop!
Manafort? Coffee fetcher? Trump NEVER EVEN met the guy.
Pence was handpicked by Manafort. Pence up to his eyeballs in lying about Flynn.
Exactly. A deeply unpopular red state governor whose political career was circling the toilet.
Donald thought he could launder power between the Russian and American underworld. All he needed was a little help from them, a few lies.
In a way, it’s another indication there is no evidence of collusion.
Giuliani went on to point out that Hurricane Florence making landfall in N.C. is another indication that there is no evidence of collusion. The mysterious gas explosions in the Boston 'burbs is another indication that there is no evidence of collusion. The great box office success of 1939’s Gone With The Wind is another indication that there is no evidence of collusion.
He continued in this vein for well over an hour, but there were no media representatives still in attendance after the first 20 minutes.
I think it may be two key questions: What does he know, and what is he really willing to reveal? This was a plea entered into very reluctantly on his part, and he may still be hesitant about sharing, even though it is pretty clear that Mueller has him in a vice (and probably already knows much of what he might say) and his deal depends on cooperating. (I presume that this situation is one with which Mueller is quite familiar, and he and his team know how to treat such a witness.) Manafort may have finally come to realize that he could not trust Trump to save him, but he may also still be afraid of what Russians might do to keep him quiet or in retribution.
“Begging questions” is a thing that this is not. Just thought I’d get that done. Carry on.
In this case, it is probably more like questions (from Mueller) and begging (from Manafort)
Next target, Roger Stone. Manafort, his former business partner, certainly knows all about his dirty tricks operation. You can be damned sure it’s dirty because they used the old arms-length, “plausible deniability” tactic of setting Stone up outside the campaign operation. There will be crimes galore, directly related to Russian election interference, when Stone is indicted.
Did you see Rachel Last night ? 18 pages of charges.
He knows everything
Probably a lost cause, for all intensive purposes.
I liked the part where he said “yup, I did all those crimes, plus the ones that the lone hold-out juror in the Virginia trial voted to acquit – in other words, I’m guilty of every last thing I’ve been charged with.”
He always thought it would be just like his business , sleazy deals under the table .
Just reinforces how really and absolutely fucking stupid he is.
He thought no one would notice
I believe Manafort was a tenant of Trump’s for many years. He probably has a 10-15 yr history of being party to money laundering that Trump was involved in. If nothing else.
Manafort and Stone have decades of political dirty tricks. I believe he would have to answer truthfully and cough up any evidence if asked. How Pence was selected, who was pulling the strings? How did Manafort get the campaign job? What was discussed? What other campaign laws were broken? What did you promise the Oligarchs that they could look forward to from a Trump admin?
I read somewhere that Treason can only exist during a state of war. Not sure about that. But, Manafort was skirting Treason with every move he made and I gotta believe thru every step of his indictments and conversations with OSC…it had to be brought up that they were holding back Treason (or next best thing) over his head. Intent to defraud the US was the nicely worded version and FARA…but I gotta believe there is at least one or two higher levels (Treason or Treason-Lite) that Manafort was staring at and Trump and Co. will likely face now. His pleading may well have been to cop to the lesser charges now or face the giant Treason trial that is coming as a key player.
Manafort agreed to provide any information asked of him, testify whenever asked and even work undercover if necessary
Now who on Earth would be stupid enough to say something incriminating now that… nevermind.