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[First Manafort trial] Manafort pleads guilty to two of seven charges in second case


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I am curious to hear whether those 10 counts that got held up were due to just one juror.

 

The prosecution seemed to have Manafort dead to rights, but maybe the media didn't do a good enough job breaking down how strong of a case each count had. Because if it were just one Trumpkin pooping in the punchbowl, I then why guilty on 8 counts?

 

Also, about that Tweet that claims that the counts they didn't get him on mean little in a practical sense, does anyone have the actual breakdown of the time ranges Manafort is now facing and how that compares to what it would have been if they had got him on all 18?

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24 minutes ago, Chairslinger said:

Either Manafort wasn't offered a plea deal at all, he's all in betting on a pardon, or there's some truth to the idea that he's not doing it for Trump he's terrified of a Russian Polonium cake.

 

At 70 years old, why would he sacrifice even 5 years for Donald Trump?

 

He could also be trying to shield his family from his Russian mafia friends.

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1 minute ago, Jason said:

 

He could also be trying to shield his family from his Russian mafia friends.

 

 

Naw, that would take a miniscule amount of human decency that is anathema to anyone on Trump's team.

 

Manafort would offer his daughters to his cellmates and Fox News could call it Biblical because of Genesis 19.

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9 minutes ago, Chairslinger said:

 

 

Naw, that would take a miniscule amount of human decency that is anathema to anyone on Trump's team.

 

Manafort would offer his daughters to his cellmates and Fox News could call it Biblical because of Genesis 19.

Based on what I've read from court, he'd willingly, insistingly let them have his wife

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2 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

Yeah why do people think he was? They had so much shit on him they probably figured he would come to them at some point... which he still might since he has another trial coming up.

It's not unreasonable to assume that he was, but maybe the case was so very airtight from the prosecution's perspective that one would be selling themselves short 

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18 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

It's not unreasonable to assume that he was, but maybe the case was so very airtight from the prosecution's perspective that one would be selling themselves short 

 

He was also one of the first indictments we found out about, and Mueller has a history of starting with the people lower on the ladder and then working his way up to the top, which often involves giving deals to the intermediate people en route to the target. 

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