#manafort guilty

- Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign crimes. - Paul Manafort convicted on tax fraud.  - Rep. Duncan Hunter indicted for misuse of campaign funds.

Ever @realDonaldTrump staffer has been found guilty of. Trump is probably GUILTY!

Oh & Trump, here is a new hat.

RETWEET!

— StanceGrounded‏ @_SJPeace_ Aug 21, 2018

this is the worst hour of Trump's entire presidency--no, make that entire life

— Norm Eisen‏  @NormEisen - Aug 21, 2018

👏 The Mueller Justice League continue their winning streak. #NotTiredOfWinning

#GOPCorruption #GOPCrimeWave #WitchHunt 

Trump’s former campaign manager and convicted felon, Paul Manafort faces: 

a maximum of 15 years in prison for the tax fraud charges

a maximum of five years for the one charge of failing to report a foreign bank or financial account

a maximum of 60 years for the two bank fraud charges, which each carry a maximum sentence of up to 30 years.

And Paul Manafort. #TrumpNext

Cohen was apparently a fan of encrypted communications apps like WhatsApp and Signal, but those tools failed to keep his messages and calls out of sight from investigators. In June, prosecutors said in a court filing the FBI had obtained 731 pages of messages and call logs from those apps from Cohen’s phones. Investigators also managed to reconstruct at least 16 pages of physically shredded documents.

Those logs, judging by the charging document, appear to have helped document at least Cohen’s communications with officials at the National Enquirer about allegations from porn actress Stormy Daniels—whom Cohen allegedly paid on behalf of Trump, violating campaign finance law. It’s unclear if the FBI actually broke through any layers of encryption to get the data. It’s possible that Cohen, who apparently at times taped conversations, stored the conversation logs in a less-than-secure way.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, himself found guilty of eight counts of federal offenses yesterday, also saw his encrypted WhatsApp and Telegram communications brought up in court over alleged witness tampering. Those messages appeared to have been found through Manafort’s Apple iCloud account.

Paul Manafort has been found guilty and Michael Cohen has plead guilty.

Donald Trump is going to shit enough bricks to build his stupid wall.

— Middle Age Riot‏ @middleageriot - Aug 21, 2018

45 spending every hour building The Wall

The key words in the plea deal are cooperating in "any and all matters". All matters including:

Roger Stone who Manafort has known since college and worked for since Stone was 24 yrs old #RichardNixon

Manafort has known Donald J Trump since the 1980′s through Stone

Roger Stone recommended Trump hire Manafort

Cambridge Analytica: Jared Kushner and Manafort hired Cambridge. This was before Steve Bannon joined Trump. And before Robert Mercer and Rebekah Mercer began financing Trump’s campaign.

Russian Oligarchs - too many

Why he helped change the GOP platform to be PRO Russian

Jeff Sessions and Michael Flynn involvement with Russians

Trump Tower meeting with Russians - Manafort attended with Donald Trump Jr and Jared Kushner *** Hillary’s emals

Back channel to Russia and Putin

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According to reporting, Manafort has already provided information to federal investigators – part of the ongoing probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

According to Andrew Prokop at Vox.com:

It’s enormously important news for the Russia investigation. Many have long speculated that the special counsel’s main aim in charging Manafort with financial and lobbying crimes was to pressure him to "flip" — so he'd agree to provide information related to their true concern of whether the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to interfere with the election.

Now, it's happened. And that should make President Donald Trump very nervous indeed.

Never forget

Paul Manafort is a CONVICTED FELON: guilty of money laundering, tax fraud, failing to report foreign bank accounts, violating rules requiring registration of foreign agents, lying and witness tampering. 

#TickTock