The Latest: Trump praises Manafort during jury deliberations

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President Donald Trump is calling Paul Manafort a “very good person” as a jury deliberates in the tax and bank fraud trial of the former Trump campaign chairman.

Trump said Friday at the White House that it was “a very sad day for our country.” He said Manafort “worked for me for a very short period of time,” but added “I think it’s very sad what they’ve done to Paul Manafort.”

The jury began its second day of deliberations Friday.

Prosecutors say Manafort hid tens of millions of dollars in foreign income from the IRS, money he made advising politicians in Ukraine. When the Ukrainian money dried up, they say he lied on loan applications to maintain his cash flow.

Defense lawyers say the government failed to prove its case.
 
Not sequestered. They were, however, charged by the judge not to watch or listen to or read any news at all.
 
griz said:
It makes you wonder if our country letting white collar criminals off the hook for decades makes it hard to accept for business leaders that they play far too loose with ethics and the law. Manafort is accused of significant crimes and looks very bad in this case (no matter the end result). For Trump to complement him is odd.
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Manifort is being tried for things that Rosenstein decided did not constitute crimes years ago, and declined to prosecute. Mueller resurrected them. Obviously, you agree with Mueller’s assessment, not Rosenstein’s.
 
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Ridgerunner said:
Manifort is being tried for things that Rosenstein decided did not constitute crimes years ago, and declined to prosecute. Mueller resurrected them. Obviously, you agree with Mueller’s assessment, not Rosenstein’s.
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That would be something for the jury to decide - without any lobbying from Trump.
 
HCTC said:
That would be something for the jury to decide - without any lobbying from Trump.
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Nobody is under a gag order, and the jury was instructed not to see or hear any news. The jury will decide, never fear.
 
griz said:
I saw those claims, but Manafort’s defense lawyer said he was going to put Rosenstein on the stand over it and he didn’t, so I think you can easily judge that the claims are more defense lawyer bluster than anything based in reality.
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There isn’t any doubt as to the reality of them. I don’t know whether Manafort’s lawyer was bluffing in threatening to call Rosenstein or not. In any event, he decided Manafort didn’t need any evidence from anybody. We’ll see if he was right.
 
It’s reported pretty widely. I do realize the left wing media tends to suppress things like that. If the ayatollahs of Iran came to DC and agreed never to build nukes, never to give a dime to Hezbollah or the houthis and never to support terrorism again, and allowed American investigators to continuously monitor the country without limitation, the left would probably not publish it at all.
 
griz said:
More likely, the regular media looked into the story and decided there was nothing there. The rest of this post is just made up garbage.
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Too widely reported to be false. But it really is true that the Dem media will never give Trump credit for anything, no matter what it is.
 
Baloney. They do give him credit when he does good things. They also give him credit for the bad things he does. You need to get out more.
 
If Trump would/could stop bragging about himself long enough, someone else might have a chance to find something legitimate with which to credit him.

“I have the best words.”

“I have the world’s greatest memory.”

‘I’m a very stable genius.”

“No one reads the Bible more than me.”

“Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.”

“I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.”

And if he stopped telling falsehoods at such a fast clip, the press would not have to spend so much time fact-checking him and would have more time to commend him.
 
As little appropriate as it may seem to you, none of that bothers me in the least. If he really said those things, they are, to be a big “so what”. I don’t care about stuff like that. I care about things like the Little Sisters of the Poor being dismissed from Obama’s lawsuit against them, reinstatement of the Mexico City policy, the crushing of ISIS, halting the Russo/Iranian advance is Syria, withdrawing WOTUS, being responsible for a 1/3 rise in the stock market in one year, low unemployment, tax relief, appointment of Gorsuch and Kavanagh.

Those are the things I care about. The rest is just nothing.
 
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You might want to look up the meaning of “crocodile tears”.

I did not say my list is exclusive. Want me to go on?
 
Ridgerunner said:
I care about things like the Little Sisters of the Poor being dismissed from Obama’s lawsuit against them,
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The Obama administration did not sue The Little Sisters, but rather offered them an accomodation. The nuns did, in fact, sue the Obama Adminustration.

“They’re the perfect plaintiffs: elderly nuns who wear habits and care for the poor and elderly. When the Little Sisters of the Poor filed a complaint against the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate in 2013, they joined a host of other religious charities and colleges that claimed the law placed a burden on their free exercise of their religion. But the sisters stood out: If nuns claim a law violates their conscience, who’s to tell them they’re wrong?”

www.theatlantic.com

Even Nuns Aren't Exempt From Obamacare's Birth-Control Mandate

A federal appeals court rules that the Little Sisters of the Poor received a sufficient religious accommodation.
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They were sued by a number of states over the exemption that they were given.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...awsuit-over-their-hhs-mandate-exemption-35651
 
Why don’t you give us a complete list of what you really care about.
 
So, okay, you supported Obama’s opposition to the nuns’ freedom of conscience. I didn’t. I thought it was terrible. But I guess Democrats have to support Obama against miscreants like the Little Sisters. What’s the excuse for Obama’s suit against the Lutherans in Hosanna Tabor?

The sisters were facing fines they could never pay. Basically, the Obama administration wanted to force them to be complicit with abortion or stop their ministry. I’m grateful to Trump for stopping it, and you should be too.
 
Personally, I never understood why they wouldn’t sign the paper saying they wanted an exception because they were so proud of their faith they would sign anything proclaiming it. Just saying.
 
I don’t have next week free to write them down for you.

But here’s something for you. I care that Trump is cooperating with Saudis and the UAE in opposing Iranian aggression in Yemen.

I also care that he’s renegotiating trade agreements. Looks like the one with Mexico is about to be completed.

There are more, but I don’t have any more time this weekend.
 
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