Trump, Allies Brushed Off The Manafort Charges. Then A New Case Dropped.

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By NICOLE LAFOND Published OCTOBER 30, 2017 12:20 PM

President Donald Trump and members of his inner circle on Monday were quick to distance the President from news that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had surrendered to the FBI for charges related to money laundering, among other alleged offenses.

Those efforts to disassociate the President from the first arrests of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe quickly proved futile.

Just minutes after the President sounded off on Twitter to say the Manafort charges had nothing to do with him, and Trump’s former campaign manager defended him on television, court documents from a separate case were unsealed. Those documents revealed that a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser had pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.

Just before 10:30 a.m. ET, Trump tweeted that the charges against Manafort stem from alleged bad deeds that occurred “years ago” and were therefore not the President’s problem. The indictment against Manafort indicates the alleged misconduct spanned from 2006 to 2017.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-allies-brush-manafort-new-case-drops

[Berlin Expat]

1. And the best part

is that Papadopolous has apparently turned state's evidence.

He's singing like a canary, to use the old adage. I'd imagine some folks (I'm looking at you, Donnie, Jr., and Kushner too) are sweating bullets right about now.

[maryellen99]

2. I have a feeling the only ones Trump will pardon are Jr and Kushner nt

[TeamPooka]

7. Trump will try to pardon the only person he really loves, himself.

[Dr. Jack]

3. Sounds like the Republicans are just having one of those Mueller Mondays

[ffr]

4. Pretty bird Papadopoulos

[C Moon]

5. What is shocking more than anything about this, is that it's starting to look like Putin lied to us.

(sarcasm, of course).

[dalton99a]

9. How disappointing. I expected better from the KGB guy

[cstanleytech]

6. Make you a bet that this is why they have kept on trying to drag Hillary back into the news

with another investigation and the whole uranium and dossier kick they have been on because someone probably informed Donald about the foreign policy adviser pleading guilty and they are in a high panic mode and afraid even more stuff will be discovered so they are hoping to get the media to use Hillary as a smokescreen to cover for them.

[louis-t]

8. That's quite a sentence!

[eggplant]

15. I hope to say that after each sentencing hearing. n/t

[cstanleytech]

18. When you are typing on a tiny phone screen you sometimes do not have the luxury

of obeying the rules of proper grammar lol

[GusBob]

10. I think the lawyers should/would tell Trump to keep his trap shut

eom

[red dog 1]

11. Once again Drumpf proves that he's a lying POS

"bad deeds that occurred 'years ago'?"
I don't think so.

K&R, thanks for posting, DonViejo

[calimary]

12. Like they used to say in the Almond Joy commercials...

Indescribably DELICIOUS!!!

[rocktivity]

13. And so it begins: Remember the Nixon.

DISCLAIMER: I'm too young to remember Nixon.


rocktivity

[fierywoman]

14. Oh, I remember the Nixon.

I had an Impeach Nixon bumper sticker on my yellow VW Bug and I worked that summer as a waitress in a country club on Long Island that Nixon's buddy Beebee Rebozo was a member of. Oh, how I remember!

[Hekate]

17. Oh, I well remember Nixon. In the immortal words of Mark Slackmeyer, "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!"

Yesssss

[Hekate]

16. Tuning up the orchestra for my patented Schadenfreude Dance

Bwahahahahahahaha