08-22-2018, 08:08 PM
Manafort was ripping off the tax payers of this country, at the very least, for his own personal gain for decades. He was guilty as charged in that regard. I'm glad LE did its job and he's finally being held accountable.
And, you don't know when he was initially scrutinized. It was an oligarch who filed suit against him for financial crimes first. We covered it here when the Ukranian-supplied ledgers were published-by the New York times back in 2016.
You and FryGuy sure do insist that you know a lot of things you couldn't possibly know. You seem hell-bent on supporting certain people and narratives regardless of the known contradictory facts, regardless of the large number of lies and changing stories coming from Trump and Rudy, and regardless of the mental contortions it requires to seriously consider many of your arguments and deflections.
Even so, I still hope your general premise is right and Trump is just the worst President ever at hiring people, and the most ignorant President ever when it comes to knowing what his subordinates were up to right under his nose.
That level of incompetence would be preferable to our President knowingly and actively directing a corrupt operation at the expense of the American people for the benefit of himself, his family, and/or foreign adversaries.
And, you don't know when he was initially scrutinized. It was an oligarch who filed suit against him for financial crimes first. We covered it here when the Ukranian-supplied ledgers were published-by the New York times back in 2016.
You and FryGuy sure do insist that you know a lot of things you couldn't possibly know. You seem hell-bent on supporting certain people and narratives regardless of the known contradictory facts, regardless of the large number of lies and changing stories coming from Trump and Rudy, and regardless of the mental contortions it requires to seriously consider many of your arguments and deflections.
Even so, I still hope your general premise is right and Trump is just the worst President ever at hiring people, and the most ignorant President ever when it comes to knowing what his subordinates were up to right under his nose.
That level of incompetence would be preferable to our President knowingly and actively directing a corrupt operation at the expense of the American people for the benefit of himself, his family, and/or foreign adversaries.