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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1072208)	6/5/2018 11:45:53 AM
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Lock him up!! Trump Campaign Chairman Attempted to Tamper With Potential Witnesses in His Case by Susan_Wright Special Counsel Robert Mueller is charging Paul Manafort with attempting to influence their testimony. Who actually sees former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as the kind of guy who can withstand prison life? That might be an important thought to keep in mind. A report breaking tonight is that special counsel Robert Mueller claimed in a Monday court filing that Manafort is guilty of attempting to tamper with witnesses. Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, asked the judge overseeing the case in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to revoke or revise an order releasing Manafort ahead of his trial. As one of the first of Trump’s campaign circle to be indicted, Manafort faces charges of money-laundering, failure to register as a foreign agent, and also tax and bank fraud. He has been on home confinement since he was arraigned in October 2017. So what has he done now? FBI Special Agent Brock Domin, in a declaration filed with Mueller’s motion, said Manafort had attempted to call, text and send encrypted messages in February to two people from “The Hapsburg Group,” a firm he worked with to promote the interests of Ukraine. The FBI has documents and statements from the two people, as well as telephone records and documents recovered through a search of Manafort’s iCloud account showing that Trump’s former campaign manager attempted communication while he was out on bail, according to Domin. That’s Olympic-caliber dumb. The communications were “in an effort to influence their testimony and to otherwise conceal evidence,” Domin wrote. “The investigation into this matter is ongoing.” To be clear, the charges against Manafort are not directly related to his work with Trump’s presidential campaign. He was swept up during the course of the investigation, as Mueller has been given broad investigatory powers. He starts with Russian collusion or attempted obstruction, and he follows whatever thread of corruption or wrongdoing he can find. The prevailing thought is that Mueller is playing hardball, and he will use situations like this to squeeze Manafort, the most senior member of Trump’s campaign to be indicted, for information about the campaign. President Trump has railed in recent days about why the FBI didn’t tell him ahead of time that Manafort was under investigation. The information about Manafort’s entanglements was readily available, but if you choose to walk around in the dark, then it’s easy to miss. themaven.net MistyBat Trump knew this was coming down. Hence his out-of-nowhere whining about Manafort on twitter yesterday. Can't you just imagine the kind of ham-handed scheme Manafort came up with, sitting at home in two ankle monitors with nothing to do but plot how to "outwit" Mueller? [ Sounds like the President is spying on Mueller. ] Trump simpered that nobody told him his 2nd of 3 campaign managers was a criminal. He should have made friends with Google and found the list of murderous dictators Manafort was paid to help prop up. Or Trump could have just decided that anyone who was ever in business with Roger Stone was likely a bum liability. JaneKMiller Manafort is under extreme pressure from somebody on the outside. The only reason you tell a prosecutor that you'd rather face the music on decades of prison time than to flip is if somebody is threatening you with something worse than decades of prison time. In other words, Putin's thugs are threatening to murder Manafort's girlfriend, his Russian family, or something like that. That's the only way to explain this absolutely desperate behavior.