Discussion: Prosecutors: Manafort Wrote Op-Ed With Colleague 'Assessed To Have Ties' In Russia

Another in the “Hold My Beer” emporium of egregious acts.

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They added, “It compounds the problem that the proposed piece is not a dispassionate recitation of the facts.”

A fancy pants way of saying the piece is pure bullshit.

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Lock him up?

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Would like to see him tethered for sure.

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Not much left in the book is there? Murder and Terroristic intimidation maybe. Haven’t gotten there yet.

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Ari Melber just reported that Mueller has asked that Manafort’s bail deal be cancelled. Mueller says that Manafort is working with someone in Russian intelligence agents.

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This also suggests that someone who knew about the piece, presumably because Manafort had told them, is cooperating with Mueller. Maybe somebody Manafort had approached about being their front?

It’s got to be feeding the paranoia in Trumpworld. You confide in someone about your scheme to get out from under this and wham! it ends up in a court filing by the prosecutors.

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“It’s back to the slammer for him,” says Richard Painter.

Lock him up.

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He doesn’t have a study buddy in the US to help him with his homework?

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In case you were wondering why my comment doesn’t really connect to what you said, I replied to you by accident. I do that sometimes. :confused:

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But it is applicable in so many places? :grinning:

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Melber just showed two republicans who said that a president can be charged with OOJ:

Lindsey Graham and New Gingrich.

Of course, they were much, much younger then, and the target, er, President, was a democrat.

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