manafort s lawyer when he got out of court yesterday did not say as many defense lawyers do, we will appeal this, we have considering all his options. we are evaluating our options which indicates they re thinking about a lot of things. i thought for a long time that manafort is playing the pardon game in part because there s no other sensible rational to choosing to have two trials. it only benefits the government and so when you start to see donald trump s tweets and statements about you re a good guy and he s treated unfairly which mirrors some of the statements he made about other people that he s pardoned, the writing is quite obviously on the wall. as to flynn and papadopoulos, we re starting to see a little bit more into the recesses of mueller s investigation, not the substance but some of the background stuff. first of all, papadopoulos apparently attempted to cooperate, but was unsuccessful because he didn t tell the truth. so he s wiped out. he s lower level so he s no
not a reliable nar ratering up until the moment she was oust fareed the white house, according to people in and outside the administration with every breath she had, she was a friend. michael cohen when he is pressed enough. we shouldn t listen to flynn. these guys all rat out. it s almost as if donald trump deliberately surrounded himself over the years. with incredible people. with uncredibly untrust worthy people. so when they turn on him, everybody will say, they don t have any credibility. frankly, there s very few people around donald trump these days who do have credibility. sure, numerous people who are better equipped to make the race argument against donald trump. these are the exceptions, which is good. which is good. steve leishman said look how mcghan tells the truth. anyway, former cia director john brennan, today, he s considering taking donald trump to court after the president revoked his
could that, if he did in fact offer the pardon to flynn, could that be part of an obstruction charge and some have said, it could possibly be a bribery charge because he s trying to ibe a witness? but i think, you know, the part of why it s an absolute power is no one, i don t think anyone ever assumed it would be used in this way. pardons are supposed to be about justice but not vindictiveness or personal favors. or obstructing justice. yeah, he s taking someone who pled guilty to a crime. admitted under oath he was guilty, had his arguments to the judge that this was selective prosecution and all of that is just being thrown under the table. i ask you this question from the new york times by michelle goldberg where she says donald trump presents celebrity impunity. here s the quote. functions as revenge when they called rosanne barre, highest
implications. remember, manafort, a lot of the indictment against manafort was involved with fara registration violations. if there is any chance you re representing a foreign government, that s how strict it is he did deliver this plan through the white house to flynn there is also elliot broidy who michael cohen supposedly sort of facilitated the hush money agreement he made to somebody he allegedly had an affair with. but there is now a payment from broidy of i think 180 something thousand dollars made to michael cohen in this. it seems like a mixed use company. we have, like, three different things here. we have just, like, classic rain making, okay, at&t giving some money. we ll teach you about trump. the payments to women. there are many shingles. but this is actually important, though, when we think about elections and what the political implications. you guys were saying this is confusing to people. we have big pharma, a major
nothing illegal about that, is there? there are lobbying laws that could be triggered. if he actually did take something, you know, on their behest to the president of the united states, he would need to have registered under the foreign what is it? the foreign agency registration act. so you can t it s even in which you have to actually although, if it was for an american company officially. lobbying disclosure act. that would mean him having we would know that. it would be public. if in some way the oligarch was using this american company as a way to launder money to cohen to evade the foreign yeah. the fara act, that could potentially have legal implications. a lot of the indictment against manafort was involved with fara registration violations. if there is any chance you re representing a foreign government, that s how strict it is he did deliver this plan through the white house to flynn there is also elliot broidy