Mueller Investigation pt5

[quadraginta]

What the judge said about Manafort was other-worldly surreal:

[Manafort] has lived an otherwise blameless life

Manafort's sleazy, multi-decade relationships with Russian scumbags, not among the charges he faced, is part of this blameless life. WTF.

Comments like that show the state of mind which the judge had when deciding on this sentence.

They also show how utterly without foundation any such leniency was.

The man was not guided by any adherence to law, but by his prejudice in favor of Trump criminals, and that statement proves it.

 

[theprestige]

Comments like that show the state of mind which the judge had when deciding on this sentence.

The Yale Group probably has enough data to diagnose him just from that comment alone.

 

[newyorkguy]

I saw this on Twitter:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
‏Paul Manafort getting such little jail time [47 months] for such serious crimes lays out for the world how it’s almost impossible for rich people to go to jail for the same amount of time as someone who is lower income. Link

Real life example:

For context on Manafort’s 47 months in prison, my client yesterday was offered 36-72 months in prison for stealing $100 worth of quarters from a residential laundry room.

 

[The Big Dog]

manafort's light sentence was an obvious demonstration of the judiciary's displeasure with the political nature of the special counsel's conduct.

 

[BobTheCoward]

manafort's light sentence was an obvious demonstration of the judiciary's displeasure with the political nature of the special counsel's conduct.

Prove it

 

[acbytesla]

manafort's light sentence was an obvious demonstration of the judiciary's displeasure with the political nature of the special counsel's conduct.

Not the "judiciary". A single judge. And that was probably more a reflection of his own political position.

 

[The Big Dog]

Prove it

Oh dear, that was not very polite:

His case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia marked the first criminal trial in the Mueller investigation. But as the defense noted, Manafort’s crimes were not connected to Russian election meddling or allegations of collusion with the Trump campaign.

Ellis even said during the trial that Mueller’s team was not permitted to mention the investigation into possible coordination between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.

“He is not before the court for anything having to do with colluding with the Russian government to influence the election,” Ellis reiterated Thursday.

Seems pretty clear to me.

 

[Belz...]

manafort's light sentence was an obvious demonstration of the judiciary's displeasure with the political nature of the special counsel's conduct.

Wow, you had to think long and hard to come up with that nonsense, I'm sure.

Oh dear, that was not very polite:



Seems pretty clear to me.

Yeah, only if you squint real hard.

 

[newyorkguy]

Many people are making comparisons. Example -The woman who was sentenced to eight years -- double what Manafort got after being convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States, witness tampering, bank fraud and tax fraud -- for voting illegally twice.

The Texas 2nd Court of Appeals has upheld a conviction against a woman who says she inadvertently voted illegally on two occasions, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday. Rosa Maria Ortega, a green card holder who was born in Mexico and brought to the U.S. as an infant, was convicted in 2017 and sentenced to eight years in prison. The Texas 2nd Court of Appeals upheld that conviction in a ruling dated Nov. 21. Link

 

[quadraginta]

The Yale Group probably has enough data to diagnose him just from that comment alone.

I have no idea why he would need to be diagnosed, nor for what.

But taking him at his own words to judge where his sympathies may lie has nothing to do with any sort of diagnosis, or with any "Group".

 

[BobTheCoward]

Oh dear, that was not very polite:



Seems pretty clear to me.

Did Mueller's team express a desire to discuss Moscow?

 

[Paul2]

Oh dear, that was not very polite:

His case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia marked the first criminal trial in the Mueller investigation. But as the defense noted, Manafort’s crimes were not connected to Russian election meddling or allegations of collusion with the Trump campaign.

Ellis even said during the trial that Mueller’s team was not permitted to mention the investigation into possible coordination between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.

“He is not before the court for anything having to do with colluding with the Russian government to influence the election,” Ellis reiterated Thursday.

It's irrelevant whether the crimes Manafort was prosecuted for have to do with Russian meddling, as Mueller's charge allowed him to prosecute any crimes he found out about while investigating Russian meddling.

 

[Belz...]

Exactly. Maybe the judge watches Fox News.

 

[jeremyp]

Nothing can be changed by constitutional amendment.

The current bipartisan nature of US politics ensures that.

I do not think that word means what you think it means. In fact, it means pretty much the opposite. You probably wanted to say "partisan".

I wouldn't normally bring such an error up, but I find it interesting because, it is plausible that "bipartisan" means two sides not agreeing and yet it actually means they are cooperating.

 

[smartcooky]

manafort's light sentence was an obvious demonstration of the judiciary's displeasure with the political nature of the special counsel's conduct. this particular judge's reputation for being soft on white collar criminals.

FTFY

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump retweeted

Tom Fitton
@TomFitton
NEW: Cohen Testimony is Abuse of @RealDonaldTrump: Deep State Abuse and Leaks Targets Trump Family/WH On Security Clearances; and Clinton email scandal witnesses set to testify to @JudicialWatch attorneys. Big Judicial Watch Update! (link: https://youtu.be/c2RkB6vbvY0) youtu.be/c2RkB6vbvY0

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Sessions didn’t have a clue!

 

[dudalb]

Your glee at 'sticking it to the Libs' is palpable. Does it make your day that Manafort only got 47 months for five counts of tax fraud, one count of failure to file a report of foreign bank and financial accounts and two counts of bank fraud? This has less to do with Manafort's criminal acts for you than seeing it as some kind of victory over Mueller. It isn't.

And Realzn forgets that guilty is guilty.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweets


Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
Cohen claimed his shady father-in-law's "in the clothing business" when in fact he's loan shark in same taxicab medallion biz as Cohen. More, his father-in-law's a convicted fraudster who was named, along with Cohen's wife, in investigation. Cohen chose to sing on Trump instead

BREAKING: Democratic Rep. Jerry "Joe McCarthy" Nadler, who just yesterday declared that Trump obstructed justice, just now on CNN admitted he doesn't have the facts to prove obstruction of justice but just personally knows it to be true and will investigate. #DemFishingExpedition

Despite running informants/stings on Trump camp, electronically spying for yr,unmasking NSA intercepts, rummaging thru Trump fixer's files, recordings, garbage, exploiting British intel & probing by CIA, FBI/DOJ, DOS, SSCI/HPSCI, MSM & SCO, Deep State still cannot prove collusion

Glenn Simpson & Christopher Steele r 2 of biggest villains in Russia collusion hoax, yet neither has faced serious scrutiny. They manufactured & seeded the dossier lies & disinformation. Yet Simpson still hasnt been subpoenaed to testify publicly before Senate. Ur move Sen Graham

Now that even some MSM acknowledging there never was a "collusion" scandal, when will MSM start investigating the real scandal of Obama DOJ/FBI & Clinton campaign making it look like there was? Oh that's right, the MSM were accomplices in that scandal. Never mind. #MediaCollusion

 

[a_unique_person]

Stupid Founding Fathers, not predicting the Internet.

It's the internet allowed to exist if its not in the Constitution?