We’ll see how much he likes torture after that. I mean, I assume the Klingons are into fiendish tortures and don’t just encourage you to think about the choices you’re making and so forth.
Even if they are trying to ‘lay a perjury trap’ if you tell the TRUTH there is no perjury - i.e. if you have nothing to hide you can’t commit perjury since you have been telling the truth the whole time.
Manifort knows he lied, Mueller knows damned well that he lied. I don’t need an expert to tell me that he obviously lied. If Less-than-a-man-afort and his lawyers think they can play Muellers team, they are only fooling Manifort.
The Onion tries to get out in front of the “truth becoming stranger than fiction” cycle:
WASHINGTON—Downplaying reports that his former campaign chairman may
have collaborated with the controversial Wikileaks founder in 2016,
President Trump said Tuesday that Paul Manafort and Julian Assange did
indeed meet on occasion to discuss how collusion was a bad thing they
would “never, ever” do. “Sure, they met a few times, but the only thing
they ever talked about was how much they hate collusion and anyone who
participates in collusion,” the president told reporters, saying both
Manafort and Assange had assured him their meetings in London’s
Ecuadorean embassy had been called for the sole purpose of outlining all
the different ways people can engage in collusion and all the reasons
why it was illegal and immoral to do so. “I firmly believe this was
nothing more than two good, honest men clarifying to each other how
disgraceful it would be to coordinate their efforts to tamper with an
election, because that sort of behavior is clearly wrong. They may also
have spoken of how completely disgusted they would be if someone were to
obtain the emails of an opponent’s political campaign and then publish
them. But that’s it. The conversations stopped there.” Trump added that
several other members of his campaign staff may have held meetings to
iron out the details of their own firm anti-collusion stances, including
his son Donald Trump Jr.
Let’s put it this way—I’m not a lawyer and you should consult with a lawyer yourself before making any decisions but as far as I know it’s illegal to threaten a chief executive of a certain country between Canada and Mexico but it’s not illegal to wish that person ill. So as long as it’s in the fantasy realm, knock yourself out.
And … looks like Mueller simultaneously rope-a-doped both Manafort and Trump. Knew that Manafort’s lawyers were blabbing to Trump lawyers, so waited until Dotard turned in his answers until dropping the hammer. Thought you had your testimony perfectly synced with Manafort, didn’t you Crime Boss? Oops, that’s not such a good thing for you after all.
[quote=“paulw, post:73, topic:81215”]
Perjury trap is more along the lines of they ask you, ostensibly as part of an investigation of entertainers, to testify about the clown you hired for your kid’s birthday and get you because you lied about the checking account you used to pay the clown.
[/quote]Who’d hire Trump for their kid’s birthday?