A Great Day For Truth, Justice, And Our Democracy

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Eight guilty verdicts against Paul Manafort. This, despite the judge in the case trying to overwhelm and confuse the jury by not letting them actually see the evidence documents while the witnesses were testifying about them, and despite his snidely biased and legally incorrect interjections.

As far as Michael Cohen is concerned, he had no choice but to take the first deal offered, and the feds were in no hurry to do even that. During the raids he knew he would be screwed by his own documents. Because of this, he’s been falling all over himself to advertise how much he was willing to cooperate ever since. So, the U.S. Attorney said, OK, just plead guilty now, and maybe we'll talk about partial leniency later.

Cohen quickly decided to take the initiative to demonstrate he was eager to cooperate in his spoken guilty pleas to the judge, this was despite the absence of any written agreement. During his hearing, Cohen included the fact that a federal candidate (whose identity is without question) instructed and directed him to commit the crime of illegal use of campaign contributions (hush money). Something that was unknown to the special counsel before the raids on Cohen’s office, home, etc.

The U.S. Attorney's own statement to the court was to indicate how compelling their evidence was against Cohen, to assure the judge that his guilty pleas were appropriate. The statement makes it clear, even in broad summary, that they have mountains of evidence against not just Cohen in this illegal contribution conspiracy, but against the publisher of the supermarket tabloid, Pecker, and against the idiot trump himself.

But there is more going on here than that. At trial , Manafort’s attorneys argued emphatically, that the plea deal given to Rick Gates was “too good”, and he should not be believed for that reason.

When Manafort faces retrial for the other ten charges, his lawyers words concerning Gate’s deal being too good will likely come back bite him in his corrupt hiney. Now that he’s been convicted, when he finally begs prosecutors for a cooperation deal to try to cut down his prison sentence, they’ll tell him, “Sorry Paul, can't give you too good a deal, otherwise you won't be credible when you testify against the idiot trump himself.

The time is rapidly approaching for future defendants in this criminal circus to understand the “get off with a slap on the wrist ship” has now sailed in this investigation. The cliche is that those who flip first get the best deals, as of the Manafort conviction, there are no more great deals to be had.

Papadopoulous who HAD a great deal, has apparently blown it by systematically lying since, and it’s highly likely he will face additional jeopardy.

The idiot trump long ago convinced himself that if he shouted “rigged witch hunt” incessantly and bellowed enough ugly and gratuitously derogatory things about the prosecutors, he would inspire (actually, incite) one of his violent cultists to hang any jury that could be seated. If that

had worked in the Manafort case, there would have been a hung jury on ALL counts, not just the most complicated ones.

Manafort's attorneys are now out there thanking the judge and the jury in public for being so fair and diligent. They know many things the idiot trump does not, one that his ignorance and arrogance will force him to learn the hard way, that being it's not nice to insult the special prosecutor, and really stupid to insult a federal judge, especially the one who is going to sentence you.

So, barring the expected unethical actions by the congressional Republican majority, the idiot trump is absolutely going down, just as people of reason have predicted since before the Comey firing, and before a special prosecutor was appointed.

The Founding Fathers never intended the president be above the law, and included provisions in the Constitution to prevent it. And if we are to remain the nation created by the Founders, the idiot trump must be indicted while in office.

Mueller has already proven he can methodically convict and/or flip everyone else under the idiot trump, and after carefully building the strongest possible case, he will blow through that flimsy administrative opinion that supposedly protects the idiot trump from a personal indictment while hiding in the Oval Office.

Mueller need only to ask for Rosenstein's permission, someone the idiot trump has also denigrated, and he will get it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-presidents-situation-gets-worse/568135/

 

I'm guessing The Donald shouldn't count on Teddy's vote

 

Haters gonna hate.