Indictments signal the beginning of Mueller's work, not the end

[DonViejo]

By Jennifer Rubin October 30 at 9:57 AM

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The indictments against Manafort and Gates are detailed here. They include tax charges as well as charges of conspiracy, making false statements, and failure to register as foreign agents. The indictment lays out a web of shell companies that allegedly allowed them to conceal income. Some of the alleged wrongdoing continued “between in and around 2008 and 2017” (paragraph 14 of the indictment).

What we do not know at this stage vastly outstrips what we do know. We know that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has moved swiftly and that his investigation is not restricted to alleged collusion. We can logically infer that the investigation is not ending, but beginning. Here is what we do not know:

If there are no additional charges and those listed in the indictment are not related to the campaign, does Manafort have information about Trump that could be obtained from Mueller through a plea bargain?

Did Trump or anyone in his inner circle know about Manafort’s dealings with Russian ally Yanukovych? (By the way, Jared Kushner and others who pushed for Manafort’s hiring once again turn out to be supporters of rotten decision-making that has embroiled the administration in controversy. “Ivanka [Trump] and Jared pushed for then-candidate Trump to hire Trump Tower neighbor Paul Manafort as campaign manager in the spring 2016, replacing the scatter-shot Corey Lewandowski. . . . Manafort’s past clients also included notorious strongmen — Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and Angolan military leader Jonas Savimbi — a fact that Jared and Ivanka either ignored or somehow found useful.”)

Did anyone vet Manafort or question him about his foreign dealings? If so, what did they find out?

Did Manafort, as some have alleged, or Gates push to change the RNC platform at the convention in Cleveland so as to water down language committing the party to arm Ukraine against Russian and pro-Russian forces? If so, did Trump know about this?

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/10/30/indictments-signal-the-beginning-of-muellers-work-not-the-end/?utm_term=.9a8d92cfa42c

[Kogaratsu72]

1. What i fear

Is that there is a cold civil war going on, about to flare. I've lived long enough as a fireman, a medic, in the states to know what the tensions are. And personnaly. The them&us mentality ain't gonna help

[meow2u3]

3. There's been a civil cold war going on for decades

Trump brought out those divisions in spades. Now that the walls are closing in on him, he and his "deplorables" might become so desperate they'll end up going on nationwide rampages against innocent people.

[brooklynite]

2. "Now this is not the end..."

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.?"--Winston Churchill