Mueller Just Guaranteed He Can Issue a Public Report
Mueller Just Guaranteed He Can Issue a Public Report
https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/11/26/manafort-tests-the-theory-of-an-unpardonable-plea/
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Just about the only explanation for Manaforts actions are that as I suggested Trump was happy to have Manafort serve as a mole in Muellers investigation.
But Muellers team appears to have no doubt that Manafort was lying to them. That means they didnt 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 that he could use to fill out his open book test. Which increases the likelihood that Trump just submitted sworn answers to those questions full of lies.
And that detailed sentencing submission
sett[ing] forth the nature of the defendants crimes and lies that Mueller mentions in the report?
Theres your Mueller report, which will be provided in a form that Matt Whitaker wont be able to suppress. (Reminder: Mueller included 38 pages of evidence along with Manaforts plea agreement, which I argued showed how what Manafort and Trump did to Hillary was the same thing that Manafort had done to Yulia Tymoshenko.)