First trying to tamper with witnesses while being under special prosecutor investigation, now just openly talking **** he lied to a judge about on a jail phone, what a ****ing moron.

These people are absolute goddamn morons.

He's e-mailing from jail too.

It's almost like those people in their life never have consequences to their actions and don't expect any this time either or something.

manafort will be pardoned. its really no big deal.

Uh, WTF.

If he gets pardoned he can still be compelled to testify and can't take the 5th.

since that's more than one step ahead of where he is right now, i'm positive he hasn't considered it

Starting to think Manafort might be dumber than Trump, but then Trump opens his mouth again

Manafort sounds like the type of character who has gotten away with so much for so long that he comes to believe he's invincible. (His daughter's instant messaging posts leaked to the internet appear to confirm this unflattering portrayal of her father.) The late Dominick Dunne wrote about people like Manafort. According to Dunne, privileged people delude themselves into believing they can get away with anything. They believe the rules don't apply to them.

I would love to see the look on Manafort's face when the jury pronounces him "Guilty" on enough counts to send him up the river for 200 years. Manafort's lawyers are probably stroking his ego telling him he has a good chance of beating the rap and the prosecutors are dummies. Manafort is delusional enough to believe them.

Of course, it only takes one of twelve jurors to hang a jury, so maybe Manafort knows something we don't ...

you don't think the same russian intelligence service that kills britons with nerve agent in london would intimidate any jurors, do you?

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1017442501295304704

womp womp

I guess all those legal “experts” didn’t know wtf they were talking about when they said he was obv gonna plead guilty.

Allegedly of course.

Uhhhh is the source for that legit? Holy ****. A follow up tweet links to this pdf which has tons and tons of text messages (with unredacted phone numbers, sucks for [Paul Manafort's daughter]!) but no indication of where it came from.

I don't know about that alt account but this story looks legit, @natsecgeek is the credit here.

http://emma.best/2018/07/20/a-note-o...anafort-texts/

A post from her on it.

Non manafort note--Wikileaks had these and didn't release them (I know that's SHOCKING). It appears you can also download all of it from that site if you want however you want it (don't know why you would tho, just read the most ridic ones posted and move on).

Well, wikileaks claims it's from ukraine and well yeah, they're probably full of ****. It came from the same trove of reports about when his daughter messaged she thought manafort probably had others killed. It's not a new batch but it wasn't neatly sorted like this till recently, it was probably a giant wall of tl;dr text files before.

There’s still time for him to cut a deal, but it’s coming down to the to the wire. Maybe he’s just really convinced Trump will pardon him.

While all these [allegedly] salacious details regarding Manafort's sexual depravities might be interesting to some, I doubt if Mueller will be offering this stuff up to the jury during Manafort's trial. Manafort is being charged with financial crimes - things like tax evasion, wire fraud and illegal money transfers. These are offenses which are fairly easy to prove as there is a paper trail.

Manafort has tended to live what some would describe as an "extravagant" lifestyle - spending considerable sums of money on multiple homes, expensive clothes and jewelry for mistresses, and other ostentatious displays of wealth. Prosecutors have long known that jurors tend to react negatively to defendants like Manafort - especially when they realize that his wealth was stolen, not earned, and he made most of his money dishonestly while they struggle to survive. Skilled prosecutors know how to paint a portrait of Manafort that will engender a feeling of resentment among the jurors.

I'll be surprised if Mueller brings up any of this "sex stuff" during Manafort's trial. The thrust will be more in the nature of portraying Manafort as a greedy bastard who didn't hesitate to break laws in order to enrich himself.

I'd be surprised if they brought up the sex stuff because doing so would be a violation of the rules of evidence, as "more prejudicial than probative." This would be grounds for appeal. The lifestyle stuff is probative because it shows he lived in a manner inconsistent with his claimed income and, eg, buying a bunch of fancy rugs is evidence of money laundering. They probably have the rug merchant as one of the witnesses receiving immunity.

Law doesn't say anything about required mandatory separation of children from their parents.

Your sarcasm detector's not working so great.

Hard to tell itt with some of the posts

Why is this going to trial?

he has incriminating knowledge about trump and expects pardons if he keeps his mouth shut

He spent like a month in jail...seems like Trump would have already granted him a pardon if he had anything major on him.