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The question is whether Sekulow will be left with egg on his face. Going by past events...

US President Donald Trump has played down the importance of an ex-campaign aide indicted in the Russia inquiry.
He said his onetime foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was a "low level volunteer" and "liar". Mr Trump once called him an "excellent guy".
Papadopoulos, 30, this month pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Kremlin-related contacts.

Unlike much of Trump's relatively young staff that helped the real estate mogul earn his early primary victories, Manafort was arguably more of an establishment figure when he was brought on.

The Trump campaign credited him with experience spanning three decades, but one of his biggest victories came four decades ago.

Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign manager, to surrender to feds in connection to the Russia probe
Reviewing ex-manager Paul Manafort's rise and fall in the Trump campaign
Manafort reportedly played a significant role in the 1976 convention where Gerald Ford ended up winning the nomination in spite of a fight from Ronald Reagan and Bob Dole. That’s the last time Republicans had no clear nominee going into the convention.

Manafort went on to work for Reagan and George H.W. Bush in later years.

and contrary to Trump's disavowal, he has bragged about knowing Trump "for decades".

snood wrote:

and contrary to Trump's disavowal, he has bragged about knowing Trump "for decades".

Didn't he have an office in tRump Tower just a floor or two from tRump's floor?

snood wrote:

and contrary to Trump's disavowal, he has bragged about knowing Trump "for decades".

Didn't he have an office in tRump Tower just a floor or two from tRump's floor?

Paul Manafort, Floor 43
Trump’s former campaign manager, who resigned in August, has lived in Trump Tower since 2006. Manafort transferred the apartment from an LLC to his name in 2015.

Legally Trump may be able to keep all this at arms length, but politically it's impossible.

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” - Donald Trump

Hmmm...sounds like insider info.

Let's not forget that Flynn is still hanging out there. He's sure to be charged as well, and neither Trump nor Pence can plausibly deny that they knew all about his problems before he was brought on board. There's no way they can keep this thing at arm's length, and they know it.

Why do people think Manafort was hired, to be campaign manager of all things? He had little experience doing so. No real connections in Washington that would have helped run the campaign.

He will probably remain president but he is damaged

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Let's not forget that Flynn is still hanging out there. He's sure to be charged as well, and neither Trump nor Pence can plausibly deny that they knew all about his problems before he was brought on board. There's no way they can keep this thing at arm's length, and they know it.

If they had nothing to do with a crime committed by other people, then they had nothing to do with that crime.

That said, this entire witch hunt is outrageous and there should be pardons ASAP.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Why do people think Manafort was hired, to be campaign manager of all things? He had little experience doing so. No real connections in Washington that would have helped run the campaign.

His political resume was mentioned on the news last night and sounded fairly impressive.

The genius of the RICO statutes is that they work perfectly against organized criminal gangs. Any member of any criminal enterprise can be charged with RICO racketeering if he can be shown to have committed two of 27 federal or eight state charges within a 10-year period as part of the enterprise. A person can be charged even if that person did not directly commit the crime but only agreed to the commission or conspired with the perpetrators in any way.

The very definition of a criminal gang begs prosecution under RICO. A gang is a group of three or more persons who have a common identifying sign, symbol or name, and whose members individually or collectively engage in a pattern of criminal activity for the furtherance of the gang.

It's neither a 'witch hunt' nor is it 'outrageous.'

It's also false to say that Trump and Pence had nothing to do with the crimes of Flynn; they most certainly did.

It continues to appear that Mueller is building a RICO case against tTrump......