or messily x it out because the sentencing of the president s campaign chair was called off today by the famous judge that oversees manafort s case in virginia. although that virginia trial is over and manafort was convicted at that trial of eight felonies, and that virginia court famously likes to get stuff done fast with no delays, that s the court, the so-called rocket docket, despite all of that, the sentencing of the president s campaign chair that was sentenced for next week, next friday, that is now indefinitely on hiatus and delayed. the problem is that the whole sentencing process for paul manafort has now been complicated by these new allegations from special counsel robert mueller that manafort breached his plea deal and lied to prosecutors after he agreed to cooperate with them. that specific issue, which manafort is now facing, the question of whether or not he
people in the administration? yes. absolutely. one of the things we should ask ourselves is, at every step of paul manafort s decision making around his indictments, he made decisions that make no sense legally. i can t imagine his lawyers were advising him to make the decisions he has made. going to trial in virginia on that first set of indictments on bank fraud, wire fraud, they had him dead. we saw the evidence. there was no argument that usually that s why you have an agreement before you go to trial. you would have expected him to do what michael cohen did, say accept a little better, which is to say let s make a deal. i have some information for you. he didn t do that. then on the eve of his d.c. trial he does what we thought he should have done before the virginia trial which is to say, now let s make a deal, now i get it. except he blows that deal up.
that roger stone has a lot of bluster and issues that he may not have direct knowledge. and not a lot of credibility. but that just adds to the list. now paul manafort has no more credibility as a witness at all because there is an entire cast of characters here who are not credible. these are not truth telling people. they have repeatedly lied to investigators. nearly everybody charged in the special counsel s investigation has included some kind of charge of lying to federal investigators or prosecutors. paul manafort experienced back before his virginia trial he had been pulled back from his supervised release because he was accused of witness tampering and making false statements. he had been witness tampering, writing op-eds when he was in detention does it surprise you the number of people who have lied to investigators in this case? it has been a number of people charged with lying. it speaks to the type of people.
credible. these are not truth telling people. they have repeatedly lied to investigators. nearly everybody charged in the special counsel s investigation has included some kind of charge of lying to federal investigators or prosecutors. paul manafort experienced back before his virginia trial he had been pulled back from his supervised release because he was accused of witness tampering and making false statements. he had been witness tampering, writing op-eds. does it surprise you the number of people who have lied to investigators in this case? it has been a number of people charged with lying. it speaks to the type of people. these were many people aff affiliated with the trump campaign. one has to say that is a lot of people. i m not a lawyer, but you hear one individual lying. it just seems like that was the kind of go-to thing to just lie. it is and knowing that this
aspect. i am less surprised to learn he has been lying than i was a couple of months ago when he actually agreed to the plea agreement. last spring when he was pretrial before his virginia trial and the d.c. trial was even closed, he violated the terms of his home detention where he was trying to witness tamper and writing op eds and doing things he was not supposed to be doing. they had to roll back agreements they had at that time. then he went to trial in virginia. he was convicted and then he agreed to this plea agreement. an alternative theory is the strategy has been delay perhaps with the end goal of obtaining a pardon. i agree a pardon is a live issue. all of the words that have come out of the president s mouth over the period of time that paul manafort has been in jeopardy have been favorable to