You are doing it again.
He DID NOT PAY THEM BACK.
He only paid for half of it to this day despite knowing he failed to pay all of it.
Look it up. The guy never paid for the 2001-2002 back taxes he owes. My bet - he was allowed to write it off.
But that is ok right?
apparently, yes.
Gotcha.... allowed to get away with owing back taxes for political reasons = okay.
Getting convicted of owing back taxes for political reasons = okay.
See the double standard?
Not for "political reasons" either time. There is a very clear difference in what happened here, but if you're too ******* stupid to see it, I can't help you.
really?
So you think Manafort would be in this predicament if not for his association with Trump?
No, he wouldn't. Mueller is investigating pretty much the lives of every person Trump has known for the past 4-5 years trying to find anything. And they found something. Which shouldn't be a surprise. You hire a team of investigators, with unlimited funds and unlimited access to all details of ANY random number of elected and non-elected officials in Washington - you bet your ass you are going to find something.
And most likely they will find more.
And none of it will have a goddamn thing to do with the original charge of the investigation.
If you don't think this is political, then your head is buried deeeeeeep in the sand.
I hear what you're saying, but you're looking at it backwards. Manafort may well have gotten away with this tax evasion, bank fraud, etc., if he had not been working for the Trump campaign, yes. The reason all that got investigated, though, was because he was working for a Russian puppet regime in Ukraine at the time. So yeah, if you were checking out ties to the Russian government in your investigation, it wouldn't seem farfetched to check out Manafort's involvement there. It's not Mueller's fault he didn't pay his taxes, but once he saw what Manafort did with his paychecks, was he supposed to close his eyes and pretend it didn't happen? Mueller is a COP. What the **** do you expect him to do?
All paths lead back to Russia. Do not forget that is what this is about.