This is really what is going on.............attacks on Mueller are reaching fever pitch because Trump and his cronies know that Mueller is likely to submit his report before the end of this month and it will not be pretty. They will use every dirty trick every lie and every conspiracy theory too reduce the heat on themselves. It's called guilty as sin.

http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/400237-obstruction-of-justice-bombshell-will-explode-before-midterms

@clevfan4life said:

because they're laying out their case for his longterm association with certain people.......srsly obf?

to which the good Judge said "When prosecutors addressed Manafort's relationship with Ukrainian "oligarchs," he told them to knock it off. Prosecutors are inferring that Manafort associates himself with "despicable people and therefore he's despicable," he said. "That's not the American way."

hehe.....

someone with ties like that close to the president has to be investigated. All there is to it

@clevfan4life said:

because they're laying out their case for his longterm association with certain people.......srsly obf?

For 12 years? Manafort's real crime was being campaign manager for Trump for a few months. Now he is being used to go after Trump. If he had never taken the position as Trump's campaign manager he would never have been facing this prosecution today.

We saw the same heavy handedness from Mueller with Gen. Flynn whom the FBI originally had concluded he did not intentionally lie and was not going to prosecute until Mueller stepped in. In the same way it was just putting the screws on Flynn to go after Trump. Flynn's real crime was being part of the Trump administration for a short period of time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/manafort-to-appear-in-virginia-court-in-bid-to-have-fraud-charges-dismissed/2018/05/03/c3b0acb0-4ca2-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html?utm_term=.d5e24e22cc8a

@oldbrownsfan said:

Apparently to prosecutors 12 years ago it was a nothingburger because they decided at that time not to prosecute. Now it is a something burger 12 years later?

because they're laying out their case for his longterm association with certain people.......srsly obf?

@clevfan4life said:

falsifying tax documents to hide who ur doing business with is a nuthinburger eh?

Apparently to prosecutors 12 years ago it was a nothingburger because they decided at that time not to prosecute. Now it is a something burger 12 years later?

@texasag1969 said:

Meanwhile back in the other Russian connection. 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/08/did-alleged-russian-spy-maria-butina-cause-a-leadership-shake-up-at-the-nra-1/

NRA leadership would make great trumpettes, totally gullible. Right to bear arms group in Russia? Please!

i loathe the NRA because of the partisan hacks who staff it. That being said, this potential debacle with them has a real chance of affecting gun ownership overall. This is why ive wishing for years now some other STRICTLY non partisan gun advocacy group with rational people running it, would step forward. People who gave the basic intelligence to see how guns manufactured at home by equipment thst isnt NFA'D is a direct work around to existing gun laws. Gun laws the NRA insists they've always been advocates of

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/08/did-alleged-russian-spy-maria-butina-cause-a-leadership-shake-up-at-the-nra-1/

NRA leadership would make great trumpettes, totally gullible. Right to bear arms group in Russia? Please!

Oh and Manafort's accountant who admits she wrote a false letter at his instruction to get a multimillion dollar loan from a bank and falsified tax returns..

This is where the rubber meets the road.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/nation-world/paul-manaforts-accountant-says-she-helped-falsify-tax-returns/507-580312314https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/nation-world/paul-manaforts-accountant-says-she-helped-falsify-tax-returns/507-580312314 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/accountant-says-she-helped-paul-manafort-cook-his-books?source=articles&via=rss&yptr=yahoo

lols