The Biggest Reveal: Mueller Knew Manafort Was Lying and WHY

[berni_mccoy]

Truths, lies, half-truths, and all the shades between... each one is revealing to frame of mind and context. Mueller knew when Manafort was lying, what it was about, and now he know’s why. Thanks Manafort for being the predictable chump you are. When you know a supposedly cooperating witness is lying and why, it gives you the keys to the kingdom in taking apart the criminal organization as a whole. Mueller can now prove frame of mind, motive and intent. It is also revealing that Mueller’s case against Trump’s crime organization is based predominantly on concrete evidence, not on any shady testimony that Trump’s goons would provide.

[orangecrush]

1. Mueller

Is a Grandmaster.

[democratisphere]

2. Mueller's abilities are mind blowing; like he is omniscient!

[unblock]

7. To be fair, he's investigating such bumbling idiots....

[ChazInAz]

20. True.

They just can't seem to avoid stepping on their own d**ks.

[lastlib]

21. ...which is a feat, considering.........

[Raster]

25. SNAP!

[berni_mccoy]

31. Heh.

[True Blue American]

37. LOL

[orangecrush]

17. Definitely an artist.

[Botany]

3. Please remember Mueller took down John Gotti

He knows how to deal with organized crime. My guess is that he got Trump's written answers and then looked at Manafort's answers.

[eggplant]

19. From "Sneakers"

[Turbineguy]

27. Manafort should get

23 years in the electric chair.

[babylonsister]

4. I wonder if any of his testimony is admissable.

He's been chatting with Mueller for a very long time. Some things he revealed must be true.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Everything Mueller has discussed with Manafort has been recorded...

It's what they do.

[babylonsister]

15. Yes, but since I posted that

I've heard that it's not admissible but Mueller knew he was lying. So there's that.

[wishstar]

16. On MSNBC, former DOJ officials said he now cannot be considered a credible witness

therefore his testimony will not be provided to the Grand Jury or used in court to obtain indictments or convictions.

[brush]

5. Manafort must've thought he was still the shrewd operator he was...

in Ukraine. Hard to outsmart Mueller's team when you're locked up.

He must be really afraid of what waits for him from Putin if he rats out trump.

Good luck with that pardon wish but trump will throw his ass and everybody else's under the bus to save himself.

Maybe he'll save the czarina, hoping he'll finally get to...

[erronis]

8. Whoa there. You're not intimating intimate stuff, right? What a twisted family. And a morally

bankrupt party and bankers to allow them to poison the executive branch.

[brush]

14. Yep, you know the deal too.

[Jersey Devil]

6. The Force is what gives a Jedi his power.

It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.

Cogito ergo Mueller

[blugbox]

34. Oh c'mon

Everyone knows it's how many microscopic little bugs are living in you!

I'm sure Mueller has over 20,000!

[Scurrilous]

10. K&R

[FakeNoose]

11. Mueller's playing a 3D chess game

... while Manafort, Papadopoulos and others can barely manage checkers.

[0rganism]

12. this time, maybe Yoda kicks Palpatine's ass and arrests him

i always did want to see that version...

[Hoyt]

13. Must have missed, what concrete evidence and how does it impact trump?

[Jersey Devil]

28. We'll find out soon

Flynn, Cohen, others who have already cooperated may have known about lines of communication between the Trump campaign, and perhaps Trump himself, and Assange and Russia. It could be that Trump himself doesn't know that they knew about those communications. If Mueller has them, in writing, Trump is screwn.

[Hoyt]

32. Could be. But, if it doesn't take trump down, it's just a bunch of crooks trying to get

trump elected. They need to be prosecuted, but trump is still sitting in office nominating judges, veto any decent legislation that reaches his desk, etc.

[True Blue American]

38. Do not forget McGhan!

[George II]

18. Situations like this remind me of that classic scene in the Cincinnati Kid after the big poker game:

[sarcasmo]

22. It's only Monday, I'm amped for this week.

[MontanaMama]

23. I was ready for Manafort news today.

Rachel told us a week and a half ago that Mueller had asked for a 10 day extension on the Manafort case which puts us at TODAY. Could be a bumpy week.

[NastyRiffraff]

24. Probable conversations with Manafort

His Lawyers: WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T LIE! You'll be in big fucking trouble if you lie! Don't do it! SAY IT! Say I WON'T LIE!

Mueller's team: Look at what you're signing, Paul. Read it carefully. You must cooperate in all ways, and above all YOU CANNOT LIE! EVER! Read it and tell us you understand everything. Especially the part about lying.

Manafort's wife: Paul, don't be an idiot like usual. You can't lie to these people. It's a crime. You could spend the rest of your life...wait. Maybe you should lie.

Manafort: I can get away with it. They'll never find out. I'm smarter than...

Judge: *pounds gavel*

[mucifer]

26. I think either manafort believes he will be pardoned or he fears what

the russians would do to his family. Either way Mueller lost the testimony he was counting on.

[uponit7771]

29. He fears for his family, the Russians will kill his kids and wife first then him yrs later

[berni_mccoy]

30. I don't think Mueller was counting on testimony

They have enough already to know when Manafort was lying, what it concerned and why.

Information is revealed when a suspect lies and this information can be as useful if not moreso than testimony.

[True Blue American]

39. Mueller does not need

Manafort’s testimony. He knew he was lying from the beginning. He is in jail right now because he contacted those he was not supposed to. Mueller is used to dealing with smarter criminals than this bunch of Keystone Kops.

[autorank]

33. K&R

You nailed it. Meuller also forced Trump's hand on the written questions and, I'm sure, confronted Manafort with Trump's responses, which were more revealing not knowing why Meuller got his deal.

Also, there is about zero doubt in my mind that there is some video/photographic evidence that Manafort entered the Ecuadorian embassy on several occasions. Assange is no journalist and Manafort is no civil libertarian in London to support Assange's claims of persecution.

[Cary]

35. We have to wait and aee

I just hope justice is served because it will be heartbreaking if it isn't.

[Linda Ed]

36. Can't wait

I can't wait! The conclusion is almost crystal clear. The story of a president compromising American foreign policy in exchange for financial gain and covert election assistance.

Because he expects a pardon from Trump, Manafort felt free to lie to investigators while also acting as a “mole” for Trump, feeding him information about what he falsely told Mueller, according to national security journalist Marcy Wheeler, writing on her Empty Wheel site.

As a result, Trump’s written answers to Mueller’s questions, which Trump submitted last week as CNN reported, are likely to be “full of lies,” Wheeler wrote.
The journalist, who herself has given information to the FBI in the Russia case, according to the Washington Post, wrote that “Mueller’s team appears to have no doubt that Manafort was lying to them. That means they didn’t really need his testimony, at all. It also means they had no need to keep secrets — they could keep giving Manafort the impression that he was pulling a fast one over the prosecutors, all while reporting misleading information to Trump.”

But deceiving Trump into, in all likelihood, parroting Manafort’s lies in his written answers to Mueller — which would also serve as evidence that Manafort was acting as a Trump spy within the investigation — Wheeler says that Mueller has now given himself an opportunity to air his collusion evidence in open court.

Mueller has proposed a way to put Donald Trump, and the facts about Donald Trump, on trial without the slightest chance of executive privilege being asserted, successfully or unsuccessfully. And Manafort, thug that he is, fumbled and crime'd himself right into this trap.”
https://www.inquisitr.com/5181923/robert-mueller-set-trap-for-trump-russia-collusion-paul-manafort/

[malaise]

40. It's Mueller time

He's got the scumbags

[kentuck]

41. But, will he indict?

The word is that "a sitting president cannot be indicted"?

Does Mueller agree with that?