Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!
Manafort guilty on 8 counts. Ten other counts are deadlocked. It’ll be interesting to see the split on those other counts.
Cohen pleads guilty later today.
Warning: DUCK! Expected tweet storm upcoming.
If you missed Lanny Davis on Maddow tonight, try to find it. According to Davis, Cohen will talk to whoever will listen and he’s got the goods.
And ….
It was a bad night for Republicans. The second congressman to endorse Trump was indicted today for stealing money from his campaign donations. Duncan Hunter joins the crook club.
@realdonaldtrump:
1Paul Manafort who? Never heard of this guy, but he’s sounds like a real good ‘Murikan in need of some pardons, no prob.
and…Cohen pleads guilty to eight counts. Lucky #
2If there is a pardon in his future, still won’t hold off State charges. All 45 can do then is hold his breath and beat on the floor.
3Manafort’s next trial starts soon re: witness tampering and more.
4TPM ( Talking Points Memo) is reporting that Chen’s plea deal does not include/require that he help any federal prosecutor.
If true why offer a deal?
Unless the prosecutor has got everything they wanted from document dump and other sources.
Wonder if this also includes state prosecutors espiacially on the state probe into the foundation and property tax scams.
5K, playing John Q Public here I tend to believe a guy who pleads guilty. While on the other hand someone who is found guilty may still have some saying the jury got it wrong.
6Jury wasn’t polled on the other 10 but since a mistrial was declared, there will be another trial after next month’s trial in DC, on the Rusher thing and collusion.
To K: Yes, Cohen pled guilty but not as a cooperating witness. However, in his plea, POTUS (who was then a candidate) is named twice. In other words, Cohen implicated tRump in criminal activities– and this could be the beginning of the end.
7He first outburst will be at his Hillbilly Nuremburg in West Virginia tonight.
8Some one is going need an extra large bucket of KFC and a double slice of chocolate cake.
9Wonder if his Orangeness will tweet something about the bad influence of immigrants on the judicial system. Today was a two-fer, the grandson of an Italian immigrant convicted of 8 counts of tax and bank fraud, and the grandson (Cohen) of another immigrant convicted of campaign finance violations.
10to NJGal
11If he is not a cooperating witness and they have got him why offer a sweet heart deal that with good behavior and a friendly judge he could get assigned to miminuim security prison and be out in 18 months?
History has shown with the scooter libby fiasco and other cases that these slaps on the wrist have NO deterrent effect ond the criminals infestation in thuglican political circles.
Give 20 to life and then he might act as a deterrent with no parole to be served at some private prison where the food is maggots and the guards let the big boys on the cell block run them.
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
12@Old Fart
Agree, but my chant is
LOCK THEM ALL UP!
LOCK THEM ALL UP!
LOCK THEM ALL UP!
13If you want to drain a swamp, Manafort and Cohen were not the best toads for the job.
14Holding out for a mass perp walk from the Executive Mansion, and would like another from the GOP offices of the Capitol, please.
15Meanwhile, throughout the Republican Party and RWNJ media, such as Fox Nooze, there arose such an outraged sound of…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg
(crickets)
And yet another Rethug (and his wife) are indicted on campaign funds fraud: Duncan Hunter (R-CA).
The same guys who still like to whine about that crooked Louisiana Dem Congresscritter that kept a little illegal cash in his home icebox.
I think it’s safe to say that everyone associated with (any) Trump is completely and utterly corrupt. Along with almost all Rethugs.
16Rhea, but the logistics of a perp walk like that would tie up every charter bus and U-Haul/Ryder truck in the nation for a week. The economy would grind to a halt.
17Wonder how much bail money they would all have to spend?
A lot of speculation on the news about how long the jury was deliberating, and what that might portend. I don’t remember anyone saying “remember, this jury isn’t deciding a verdict. It’s deciding 18 verdicts.”
18Just heard cohens’s wife is an Ukrainian National and was bookkeeper for his criminal enterprise.
19Time for ICE to kick in the door slap the cuffs on her ship here to a private facility before being forcibly deported.
This is a true example of criminal immagrants
K – speaking of criminal immigrants, or illegal immigrants in this case – I am sure Trump was breathing a sigh of relief with the arrest of the man who killed Molly Tibbets. It provided him with plenty of cover in West By God Virginia. He has plenty of kindling there to stoke the fires of xenophobia while he composes the perfect tweet about that “other” situation.
20Multiple charges have done it again. Not all of them make it across the jury room finish line. 18 counts sounds good but it makes for very poor jury function. Have seen this happen before in other big count cases. Not surprised they could only arrive at a decision on 8! And now for the encore. The next upcoming case re: Manafort. Had to argue with spell check on that name. It wanted a different spelling, but mama raised me right!
21maggie, I agree in part but am left flummoxed by which counts were “mistried”. There were, I believe 5 FBAR counts but only one came back with a guilty verdict. Given that there were bank records showing that Manafort had those accounts for five years (at least) and that he never reported those accounts on his 1040 in all of those years how is it that he is guilty of not reporting one year but the jury can’t come to a consensus on the other years. It makes no sense.
22Two more witches hunted and found!
23My research showed that a male witch is called witch, since the word is not gender specific.
Though some may prefer to be called warlocks or wizards, these latest witches fit into the “witch hunt” category.
Let’s see, adding Flynn, Cohen, Manafort, Gates, Popadopolopaloo, Van der Zwaan, and Pinedo that makes a whole coven of ’em.
Good Hunting!
@ maryelle:
And I hope McConnell, “little Eddie Munster” Ryan, Nunez and Sessions, too
24Has anyone seen konztitooshunal skollar Paul Ryan?
His duties are calling!
25The really interesting Lanny Davis interview on Rachel’s show last night: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/08/22/lanny_davis_michael_cohen_has_information_about_trump_that_would_be_of_interest_to_special_counsel_mueller.html
26If only there were some historical precedent for a Republican Congress to impeach a president for attempting to cover-up an extramarital affair.
27Jeff Sessions, as the third member of congress to endorse then-candidate Donald Trump, breathes a sigh of relief at his wisdom in choosing to run the DOJ.
28It’s funny, Clinton was impeached for the crime of telling a lie about a sexual affair, and his legacy, and that of his wife, was smeared forever.
Traitor Trump tells thousands of lies, about everything, screws everything that’ll stand still, betrays his country, and steals us blind, and there’s a question of whether he could be impeached. I feel like we’ve fallen through a mirror, and there’s no way back to reality.
29WA Skeptic, we’ve been drug through the mirrored looking glass of Trump Tower by 60+ million delusional cultists, and Alice says it ain’t no fockin’ Wonderland.
30Where’d that damned Rabbit go?
PS: We know darned well who the Mad Hatter is: Ruuuuddy Ghouliani.
31How about the rest?