As President Trump´s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, goes down in the first indictment from the Mueller special prosecution, on charges of failing to file as a registered foreign agent, there´s been speculation about why Tony Podesta, Hillary Clinton´s campaign manager´s brother, didn´t get indicted, too. He was involved with the same pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank as Manafort. Joe Hoft at GatewayPundit found an old piece from the Washington Examiner dating from last August that likely explains why: The Podesta Group belatedly filed several new disclosures with the Justice Department on Aug. 17 related to work the firm completed between 2012 and
2014 on behalf of a pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank. Back in April, the powerful Washington lobbying firm run by Clinton ally Tony Podesta filed a document admitting its work for the pro-Russia European Centre for a Modern Ukraine may have principally benefited a foreign government. New disclosures revealed dozens of previously unreported interactions the firm made with influential government offices, including Hillary Clinton's State Department and the office of former Vice President Joe Biden, while lobbying on behalf of the center. Embattled ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort failed to disclose his extensive lobbying efforts on behalf of the center at the time as well.
So around the time Mueller was being appointed Special Counsel, on May 17, 2017, the Podestas were getting their papers in order. The first filing came in April, so there was probably less tipoff than writing on the wall as the political turmoil intensified. But other filings came in August, which GatewayPundit thinks could signal a tipoff.
Did such a tipoff come from Mueller's office to protect these lawbreakers while taking down Manafort? Two things say yes: that Mueller's office consists almost exclusively of hired leftists, with a curious absence of conservatives, meaning there are probably some loyalties among that crew to the Democrats the Podestas representes, and that Mueller's office is leak-prone, as this past week's CNN scoop on the coming indictments Monday showed. A leak to CNN could just as easily be a leak to the Podestas, meaning, tipoff.
What's perhaps an even larger issue is why the Podestas could go for years without filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act and then somehow make it all right by retroactively filing the papers. Can Manafort do that too, now that he's been indicted? The Podestas got away with it. It's just astonishing that the law could work this way and Manafort could be headed for prison all because the Special Counsel got to him before he could get his retroactive papers filed (for the exact same activity with the exact same think tank). This doesn't sound like justice.
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