Apparently Gates disagrees with Manafort
And the beat goes onā¦
Meanwhile, this in from WaPo.
On a collision course.
Maybe Gates can help explain why manafort agreed to work for free.
Like deja vuā all over again
Nothing like a second helping of twenty-three indictments to help bring a little clarity.
Tick, tock, Emperor Cheeto.
One can only admire how Mueller quietly goes about his responsibilities with such lawful skill.
I thought that the reason for the new indictments was GATES gave them the info so that every crime he committed would be on the table ready to be āforgivenā when he made his actual plea? (IF it turned out there was more stuff he had done but not mentioned in the original indictments it could invalidate his plea deal ā I remember Kathleen Willey made a proffer, was given immunity, lied, got yelled at, given immunity again, lied AGAIN, and then cut loose by Starr and her statements never used by Starr, PERIOD.)
This should help bolster Manafortās claimed confidence that he will be acquitted of all charges.
Wasnāt it Samuel Johnson who said āNothing concentrates a manās mind so much as the knowledge he is to be hanged in the morning.ā?
He totally ripped off my post.
Am I the only one? I am, I confess, tired of hearing about how Gates is gonna roll. Roll already, or letās all just sit quietly and wait. Reporters breathlessly interviewing each other about rumors that theyāve heard is just not all that exciting to me.
Donāt get me wrong, Iād love to see Gates turn stateās evidenceā¦ but Iām not so interested in hearing about it until it actually happens. Weāve been hearing these reports for three weeks or more, now.
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This lifts my mood after being kind of depressed yesterday.
No, no, Rick, if youāre truly innocent fight like hell. But nice letter anyways. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Great read, highly recommend.
NPR and WaPo serve as my primary sources of news these days. Yesterday and today both have seemed to treat as conventional wisdom that these charges donāt have much to do with Russian / trump campaign collusion question. In fact, they seem to go out of their way to describe this as pretty tangential to trump. Yet as far as I can tell, many of the shenanigans mentioned in these charges took place while Gates and Manafort were running the trump campaign and these tens of millions of dollars were coming to Gates and Manafort from Russian and Russian-connected sources. Am I missing something?
Looks like I picked the wrong Lent to give up popcorn.
That NPR aināt what it used to be?
Iām sure heās completely innocent and heās only concerned to spare his children the stress of having to watch him prove his innocence. Besides, you canāt fight the Deep State!