we don t have those questions here. jared kushner knew what had happened to hillary clinton. there was clearly malice of forethought. he was clearly intentionally hiding communications between himself and the murderer that now runs saudi arabia. the murderer and torturer who killed the washington post journalist. he s on whatsapp. my question is simple and maybe clint can help here, but if the fbi launched an investigation against hillary clinton, why in the hell would they not be launching an investigation in this case against jared kushner for doing something far worse? it s astounding that the central theme of the 2016 presidential campaign was hillary clinton and her emails coming from the trump administration side. what were the lock her up chants about? they were related to this, about her secrecy of having a server
week. 47 months in prison is way under the federal guidelines of 19 to 24 years. this week, judge ellis told the court, i think the sentencing range is excessive. manafort has been a good friend to others, a generous person. and he said paul manafort has lived an otherwise blameless life. that last sentence caught the eye of a reporter who has done extensive reporting on paul manafort. he tweeted the frayed otherwise blameless life has me hopping mad for an event and associations that might suggest paul manafort s life is not otherwise blameless. he made millions lobbying for brutal and kruptd dictators, he had the nickname the torturer s lobby because it took in such large sums of money from
torturer s lobby for representing dictators around the world long before he ever came to donald trump s orbit and this wasn t just a one-off brief period of crime here that he s been accused and convicted of, this was a ten-year crime spree as mueller and prosecutors have laid out. this was a massive effort to defraud banks and evade taxes for a long time and to lie and commit felonies after making a deal with prosecution. it s a really surprising outcome from a federal judge who from what i m told by prosecutors in front of the court tends to be harder on poor defendants than on white collar offenders. there we said that. counselor, when you look at it, a guy who has stolen millions, a guy that lied to the feds, tampered with witnesses, then to hear that he has led an otherwise blameless life. what was your level of surprise? i was shocked by the sentence. it s not to say that four years
patience for the special counsel, he questioned the legitimacy of the entire investigation. but to go that low without any seeming basis for it was really surprising. and the idea that he said that paul manafort had lived an otherwise blameless life suggested that he had never read a single article about paul manafort. this is a man who was the leader of something dubbed the torturer s lobby because he represented unsavory dictators in angola and ferdinand marcos and profited as a lobbyist. he invented that business with roger stone. he has not lived an otherwise blameless life. ellis acted as if this was a one-off. this was a ten-year fraud
the judge remarked on it and said i was surprised to hear no expression of regret from you. but nonetheless, the judge didn t appear to make him pay any price for that and it was really disconnected from reality to hear judge ellis say you ve lived an otherwise blameless life. it s as if judge ellis has never read the first thing about paul manafort and known he was known as a leader of the torturer s lobby for representing dictators around the world long before he ever came to donald trump s orbit and this wasn t just a one-off brief period of crime here that he s been accused and convicted of, this was a ten-year crime spree as mueller and prosecutors have laid out. this was a massive effort to defraud banks and evade taxes for a long time and to lie and commit felonies after making a deal with prosecution. it s a really surprising outcome from a federal judge who from what i m told by prosecutors in front of the court tends to be harder on poor defendants than