Monday, October 30, 2017

Manafort, Gates surrender to federal authorities

Ugh.

Two rather crooked guys surrender to Federal authorities.

Who are themselves rather crooked. 

None of the online pages specify who these Federal authoritahs are. 

The FBI, I think.

None of them mention how insanely compromised Robert Mueller nor how truly weird this investigation at every point.

None mention the FBI's own complicity with Fusion's Steele document.

None mention the FBI using the Steele dossier to wiretap Mueller and Trump as candidate and to initiate this investigation. None mention Mueller operating with an open checkbook nor his assembling a team of Democrat operatives.

But none of that stops what appears to be entirely left wing news organizations splooging all over YouTube with rushed frenetic videos, slathering with voices that sensible people dismissed years ago over video of two guys walking into a building.

Here's one that's not like that. 



The guilty plea of George Papadopoulos marked the first criminal count citing interactions between Trump campaign associates and Russian intermediaries during the campaign.

The charges ushered Mueller's investigation into a new phase with felony charges for key members of the Trump campaign.

Papadopoulos' plea occurred Oct.5 and was unsealed Monday. He admitted lying about the nature of his interactions with foreign nationals who he thought had close connections to senior Russian government officials with dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Separate charges against Manafort and Rick Gates contend the men acted as unregistered foreign agents for Ukrainian interests with several other financial counts.

The Manafort indictment doesn't reference the Trump campaign or make any allegations about t coordination between the Kremlin and the president's aids to influence the outcome of the eection in Trump's favor. 

Both men were funneling money through foreign companies and bank accounts as part of their political work for Ukraine. 

They face twelve counts including conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered foreign agent, making false statements, and several charges related to failing to report foreign bank and financial accounts. 

7 comments:

Amartel said...

Like the use of the word "splooge."

Methadras said...
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edutcher said...

Desperation time for Mueller.

All the Lefties are trying to make this a big deal and getting oh, so sanctimonious about its implications for the President.

Uranium One, Whitewater, Monica, F&F, and the real Russia collusion, of course, don't compare.

Amartel said...

Nice foundation on which to build your vast Russia-Trump conspiracy edifice. Any claims arising from these highly-compromised witnesses will be automatically suspect. Of course, none of the news stories about these indictments mentions that Mueller and his crack team of lefty mouthpieces is utterly non-credible even without these two. And who leaked on Friday that there was going to be an indictment on Monday? They should have to clean up all the weekend splooge. Meanwhile, Hiliary continues to wander freely about the country, charging $20,000 a pop to explain how Wascally Wightwing Wussian Wepublicans stole her ewection and everyone else on the planet failed but her. Like Obama failing to make himself clear, now with less clarity.

Leland said...

So did Manafort intend to commit a crime when he hid his income? I'm asking this of Mueller for his friend Comey. Because I've told if there is no offense, there is no reason to refer a case to a prosecutor.

But hey, I'm glad the US has paid Mueller and his team for 9 months to bring charges of tax evasion. Perhaps if the IRS had spent less time targeting TEA party groups, they may have caught this earlier?

Amartel said...

Heckuva job, brownosey.

Methadras said...

Process crimes unrelated to Trump. What is new? This kind of Kabuki theater is nonsensical horseshit.