Anybody* out there dumb enough to trust these notes to be complete and accurate?
*Excluding republican senators, of course.
Trump Tweets: Manafort better hope there arenāt any tapes of that meeting. Sad! Bad! Mad! Dad!
LOL
He is trying to fabricate his way into being taken as seriously as Comey was.
Pathetic.
Iād like to know what those notes say about Kushnerās involvement.
Manafort probably has contemporaneous notes about the meetingāthatās what I would expect of a professional. I think there is some chance the notes will be genuine.
Thatās a good insight. āNotesā are the new badge of truth.
Manafort hasnāt made a āpre-emptiveā strike like Comey did, or as Kushner tried to do. Every dayās a different clown fiesta lol
If any part of Manafortās account contradicts Kushnerās thatās an interesting data point.
From āunder oathā to ājust testify - no oathā to āwritten notesāā¦my how the mighty ārule of lawā sanctimonious BS the GOP spews, has fallenā¦
Iām guessing they are going to bear a striking resemblance to these notes:
Unless (as a professional) he was smart enough to know there should be no written record of such a meeting, even private record.
Both are plausible, I think.
What is very likely is that Manafort is invested in protecting exactly one person. I donāt see him falling on a sword to hold up the lies of Don Jr. and Jared, when those are likely to be exposed by other means, anyway.
Fun timesā¦
Is it me, or are these guys playing it really dumb? Instead of Manafort coming clean with Congress in exchange for some limited immunity, he hems, haws, and ultimately comes up short, infuriating them and forcing their hand to issue a subpoena. This was apparently done in the absence of a promise for future legal protection in return. Sure I donāt know the backroom stuff. Is he just counting on a pardon? Because from what Iām feeling Trump is considering pardons only BEFORE you officially get in trouble.
Makes two of us! It could be anything. He could be honestly resisting, or this could be a show of reluctance we shouldnāt take at face value. The only guess Iād hazard is that Manafort is a smart guy who knows a lot and is in a lot of trouble himself from multiple directions. So I donāt think any sort of self-sacrificing loyalty to Trump is at work here.