Nadler: 'Personally, I think the President ought to be impeached'
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evince
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Paul Manafort
Manafort, 69, was the president’s campaign chairman for five months in 2016 during a crucial period in the run-up to the election.
Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
On Friday, he admitted to conspiring to defraud the US and conspiring to obstruct justice in return for other charges against him being dropped. A filing to the court by Mueller’s team indicated that Manafort would receive a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
The charges against Manafort are related to his Ukrainian consulting work not Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which is the central issue in the special counsel’s investigation. But the deal requires him to cooperate “fully and truthfully” with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation – in what could be a significant blow to Trump.
This comes just weeks after he was found guilty on five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failure to report a foreign bank account, and faced decades in prison on those charges.
The president has variously defended and distanced himself from Manafort, who worked for Ronald Reagan and other high-profile Republicans before establishing a lucrative political consulting business in Ukraine.
deadcatbounce
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I asked you for documentation for this: "they did those crimes on trumpies behalf". As expected, you failed.
deadcatbounce
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Which had nothing to do with Trump. You fail again.
evince
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Cohen, 51, began working for Trump in 2006 as a lawyer and a “fixer”, going on to hold the title of executive vice-president at the Trump Organization. A staunch defender of his boss, he once declared he “would take a bullet for the president”, but his loyalty to Trump has apparently waned.
On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to a number of charges, most notably making an “excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate or campaign”, ie Trump. This related to payments made to the Playboy model Karen McDougal and pornographic film actor Stormy Daniels. Following the plea, Cohen’s lawyer tweeted: “If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn’t they be a crime for Donald Trump?”
Cohen is expected to be sentenced on 12 December.
evince
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Flynn, 59, enjoyed a brief tenure as national security adviser – a mere 23 days – before he resigned after it emerged he had misled Mike Pence, the vice-president, over his communications with the Russian ambassador prior to Trump taking office.
In December 2016, he struck a plea with special counsel Robert Mueller and pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and vowed to fully cooperate with the Russian interference investigation. The retired army lieutenant-general’s sentencing has been delayed on four occasions amid suggestions he is proving useful to law enforcement in the Russia investigation.
Flynn’s sentencing has been repeatedly delayed and is slated to be pushed back until 17 September.
evince
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Rick Gates
When asked by prosecutors at his trial earlier this month: “Did you commit crimes with Mr Manafort?” Gates reportedly said: “Yes”.
He went on to detail the litany of offences – from filing falsified tax returns, to setting up shell companies to hide sources of foreign income, and misleading banks to get loans – that he committed upon Manafort’s instructions.
deadcatbounce
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Way over your head Evince. That is what happens when you are dumb as a rock. Try and keep up.
evince
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George Papadopoulos
Papadopoulos, 31, was a foreign policy adviser to Trump during the election campaign and became the first of his advisers to plead guilty in Mueller’s investigation when he confessed to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russians during the campaign.
The prosecutors said he caused irreparable damage to the investigation after repeatedly lying in an interview in January 2017, which resulted in the FBI missing an opportunity to effectively question a potential key witness.
Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in prison in district court for the District of Columbia on 7 September.
He became the second person to be sentenced to prison in a prosecution brought by Mueller. The Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan was sentenced to 30 days in prison for lying to investigators about his conversations with former Trump aide Rick Gates, who testified in court against Manafort.
evince
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that babble cant compete with the facts taintwallow
evince
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The Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan was sentenced to 30 days in prison for lying to investigators about his conversations with former Trump aide Rick Gates, who testified in court against Manafort.
deadcatbounce
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You can stop spamming this thread idiot. Your lack of knowledge and education is nothing to be proud of. Move along.
Adolf_Twitler
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The investigation is not intended to charge the president Imbecile- The investigation is about exposing all of Donald Trump's crimes to the public- and then impeaching his crooked ass!
deadcatbounce
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Of which the investigation found nothing and Nadler has nothing. Quite wasting everyones tax money.
Darth Omar
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Give us the tax returns and stop defying subpoenas and making spurious claims of exec privilege.
When every rock that gets turned ends up in a conviction, why the hell would we stop?
This shit is WORKING baby!
deadcatbounce
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You find it amusing also. All you can do is laugh at Democrats now.