"The mentally ill lying racist misogynist childish bully can't tweet his way out of this."

[L. Coyote]

Link to tweet

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I hope Reiner is right that Trump can't Tweet his way out of this,

but his loyal base will believe whatever nonsense is tweeted by the orange hooligan.

And it's not Tweets that will resolve anything, but real indictments, actual trials, resignations, and time in prison.

Until the first indictment is actually issued and someone is actually taken away in handcuffs it all feels like a tweet storm.

[Ilsa]

2. Can Manafort make a deal for a better sentence

by giving up the good stuff on trump after he is convicted?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Wouldn't be surprised, since that sort of deal making

seems quite common in the justice system.

I am not actually following all this closely enough to have much of a clue, but I believe many here have said they're convinced Mueller is hoping to get Manafort to sing like a canary.

[L. Coyote]

4. Manafort is a centeral figure in the Russian collusion.

Manafort had all the Russian connections before Trump ran, including in all likelihood the bot farms and hackers, in his sphere of activity propping up evil dictators. Manafort was the go to guy for evil dictators of the world.

[NastyRiffraff]

7. I wonder if his loyal base will visit him in prison

And sneak him a razor baked in a cake.

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. Do they really not understand...

That their "vindication" provides strong evidence of criminal behavior?

[L. Coyote]

6. Propaganda must be unrelenting, swift, even hypnotic, and never give an inch to truth and reality.

Mind control is essential to the Rs staying in power. Any crack in the facade must be immediately plastered.

We are dealing with two groups, the cons and the marks. The cons know they are running a con on the marks while the marks think they are following the righteous. It is very easy to lose the marks if truth is allowed to intervene, dangerous even, because the marks will turn on the cons once the gig is up.