The damning evidence against just one of Trump’s criminals, Paul Manafort..
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation about Russian collusion has increasingly appeared to zero in on one particular Trump associate: Paul Manafort.
In July,
we learned that Manafort — Trump’s former campaign manager — attended a meeting Donald Trump Jr. set up with a Russian lawyer last year to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. Later that month, the
FBI raided Manafort’s house for documents. His business associates, from
PR firms to
his former lawyer and his current spokesperson, are being slammed with subpoenas from Mueller’s team.
Manafort’s son-in-law has reportedly been approached and asked to cooperate with the investigation.
And the latest is that we’ve
learned that that Manafort was wiretapped, that Mueller’s team has told him to expect an indictment, and that he
tried to set upprivate briefings for a Russian billionaire while chairing Trump’s campaign.
“If I represented Paul Manafort, I would conclude that my client has significant criminal liability,” Renato Mariotti, a partner at Thompson Coburn and a former prosecutor for a US Attorney’s office in Illinois, told me in August.
Now, though Manafort’s history of pro-Russia consulting work and experience with international skullduggery have long made him a prime suspect for potential collusion.
Mueller’s team is also investigating what Manafort was up to
before the campaign. Specifically, they’re looking into whether Manafort appropriately disclosed his foreign work, and whether he was involved in illegal money laundering or other financial crimes.
Oh yeah there’s nothing there. When it gets too uncomfortable just call it fake news.
