Hillary could stand on 5th avenue doing nothing and she'd be accused of shooting someone.What would they be arresting Hillary for?
It really tied the conspiracy against the United States together, dude.https://twitter.com/gregpmiller/status/924989251388936193
Manafort secretly wired 900 grand to a rug store.
Insert Trump hair joke here.
Well, people are saying...Hillary could stand on 5th avenue doing nothing and she'd be accused of shooting someone.
Wouldn't that be something.I see Ukraine mentioned with Manafort quite a bit. Did he have a role in Ukrainian revolution, or the Russian takeover of Crimea?
forget about him volunteering why would team trump hire him i think thats a hell of a lot more telling bromigo take that to the bankThe question everyone should be asking on how this relates back to Trump-Russia...
Why would a blatant money launderer of Russian money volunteer to be campaign manager for a Presidential campaign with so much scrutiny?
https://twitter.com/NoahGrayCNN/status/924995375269863425Source close to WH tells @saramurray “These guys were bad guys when they started, they were bad guys when they left,"not related to campaign
Someone remembers the talking points about how Trump "found Flynn out"Trump has done an amazing job getting all the swamp creatures to latch onto him so Mueller can take them all down. Trump deserves 4 terms for his 107d chess play here.
In that old Protovision computer game "Global Thermonuclear War", I played as the Soviet Union. Does that count?Come on, guys. Yeah, sure, the one-time chair of the Trump campaign has been indicted for conspiracy against the United States. But who among us hasn't conspired against the United States from time to time?
Who you going to Paris with?In that old Protovision computer game "Global Thermonuclear War", I played as the Soviet Union. Does that count?
Wait, what?Remember the daughter's hack phone texts: "Don’t fool yourself,” Andrea wrote to her sister, according to the texts. “That money we have is blood money.” “You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly,”
I just read someone saying "Of COURSE this happens just as the Uranium One story is exploding!"Look, all this is just a distraction and will lead to Hillary and the Deep State.
You're Facebook friends with my uncle?I just read someone saying "Of COURSE this happens just as the Uranium One story is exploding!"
The harsh language of the indictment should terrify anyone that has close relationships with Manafort, most notably Trump.The question everyone should be asking on how this relates back to Trump-Russia...
Why would a blatant money launderer of Russian money volunteer to be campaign manager for a Presidential campaign with so much scrutiny?
16/ That Mueller is able to start with the President's Campaign Manager—rather than some peon—means he is that much closer to getting Trump.https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/924994144090710016
Epic explanation of charges from Abramson
After news of the indictment broke this morning, Fox & Friends covered the "Emoji Cheesburger Crisis At Google". I am not making this up.Meanwhile on FoxNews.com........
FOX & FRIENDS FIRST
Is the Russia collusion investigation unethical?
TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT
Tucker: Trump dossier is far from 'opposition research'
FOX & FRIENDS FIRST
King: Mueller needs to be transparent with American people
They're too blind to see they are being duped. It is indeed convenient timing of the 2 news stories. They just have it backwards.I just read someone saying "Of COURSE this happens just as the Uranium One story is exploding!"
They open legit businesses, that seem to be exceptionally successful.The money laundering always seems to trip these guys up. Surely there's a way to do it that is more foolproof? How do the big time drug guys handle this?
Fake news, he's just a no-nothing poet.https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/924994144090710016
Epic explanation of charges from Abramson
If Trump is guilty, that’s obviously true.16/ That Mueller is able to start with the President's Campaign Manager—rather than some peon—means he is that much closer to getting Trump.
29/ And by bringing in two *connected* defendants, Mueller can play them off one another—because both will be rushing to cooperate first.16/ That Mueller is able to start with the President's Campaign Manager—rather than some peon—means he is that much closer to getting Trump.
Welp, took me a total of 2 comments to get banned from r/thedonald.They're too blind to see they are being duped. It is indeed convenient timing of the 2 news stories. They just have it backwards.
Well, in general it's highly unusual prosecutors would have this level of detail on the foreign accounts. The fact they do is why I think the real money guys in the USA should be very afraid. It only looks unsophisticated in retrospect when you have the actual documents and wires to connect everything.What jumps out is how crude and unsophisticated the money laundering was.
On some level don't they have to know?They're too blind to see they are being duped. It is indeed convenient timing of the 2 news stories. They just have it backwards.
Their problem is generally getting it out of the US not into. It's much easier to get money out and they never have to pay US income taxes.The money laundering always seems to trip these guys up. Surely there's a way to do it that is more foolproof? How do the big time drug guys handle this?
I don't think most care. It's their "team".On some level don't they have to know?
No. People believe the earth is flat. People believe their husband isn't cheating, and that a 600 year old man collected two of every animal.On some level don't they have to know?
I used to do some AML work early in my career, as it was something that really interested me from a big picture perspective. I quickly realized I didn't have the eye for it and shifted my specialty into another area, but always laughed at how simple it looked once everything was pieced together.Well, in general it's highly unusual prosecutors would have this level of detail on the foreign accounts. The fact they do is why I think the real money guys in the USA should be very afraid. It only looks unsophisticated in retrospect when you have the actual documents and wires to connect everything.
Yup. Screen capture at link:After news of the indictment broke this morning, Fox & Friends covered the "Emoji Cheesburger Crisis At Google". I am not making this up.
That just seems to be an assertion that Abramson is pulling out of his ###. Everyone knew Manafort was sketchy. People wrote about it when he was hired. Most of the illegal activity in the indictment predates any role in the Trump campaign. If Abaramson is trying to say that the relatives severity of these financial crimes gives him a good stick to use against a relatively senior guy who might flip, I understand that. But that assumes that Manafort really has goods to give up on Trump (or some other "bigger" fish like Kushner). We don't know that. And, of course, there is the potential pardon lying out there.16/ That Mueller is able to start with the President's Campaign Manager—rather than some peon—means he is that much closer to getting Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN7pkFNEg5c29/ And by bringing in two *connected* defendants, Mueller can play them off one another—because both will be rushing to cooperate first.
Thanks! Now I know what the word venal means!https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/924994144090710016
Epic explanation of charges from Abramson
Yeah, the only thing I would say is that every indictment (in any case) is for a reason. In this case, Mueller is showing everyone he has the FINCEN goods on everyone (again this level of detail should be making them all quake assuming everything is not on the up and up), that he's not afraid to use the FARA statute (Flynn), and that I might just ruin your Monday morning if you lie to me.That just seems to be an assertion that Abramson is pulling out of his ###. Everyone knew Manafort was sketchy. People wrote about it when he was hired. Most of the illegal activity in the indictment predates any role in the Trump campaign. If Abaramson is trying to say that the relatives severity of these financial crimes gives him a good stick to use against a relatively senior guy who might flip, I understand that. But that assumes that Manafort really has goods to give up on Trump (or some other "bigger" fish like Kushner). We don't know that. And, of course, there is the potential pardon lying out there.
Seems to me there is an obvious third option. They think there's more to get Flynn on than FARA. My understanding is that the information Woolsey gave Mueller was about a plan to essentially kidnap the cleric that Erdogan believes caused the coup and to ship him back to Turkey extrajudically. Needless to say, that's a pretty stunning accusation.44/ Let me now make a *key* point: Mueller could *easily* get Flynn on the same FARA charges we see here. So why hasn't Flynn been charged?
45/ The answer is that either there's a sealed indictment on Mike Flynn the media doesn't know about—unlikely—or Flynn has already flipped.
Abramson's train of thought here was that these types of cases (Russian Collusion) - which rely on testimony more than documents - tend to require people being coerced into testifying. Thus, the fact that Mueller "started" as high up as Manafort suggested that the case is closer to Trump, than if it had been someone like Page.That just seems to be an assertion that Abramson is pulling out of his ###. Everyone knew Manafort was sketchy. People wrote about it when he was hired. Most of the illegal activity in the indictment predates any role in the Trump campaign. If Abaramson is trying to say that the relatives severity of these financial crimes gives him a good stick to use against a relatively senior guy who might flip, I understand that. But that assumes that Manafort really has goods to give up on Trump (or some other "bigger" fish like Kushner). We don't know that. And, of course, there is the potential pardon lying out there.
Word is Flynn flipped a while ago, but backed out after the Arapaio pardon. Maybe he's still flipped. Might want to keep his son out of jail at least.44/ Let me now make a *key* point: Mueller could *easily* get Flynn on the same FARA charges we see here. So why hasn't Flynn been charged?
45/ The answer is that either there's a sealed indictment on Mike Flynn the media doesn't know about—unlikely—or Flynn has already flipped.