Manafort. The defense is going to go on offense to attack gates credibility. All of that is part of the drama today. The nuts and bolts of this case are still in the numbers, in the tax fraud, bank fraud, alleged deals for these clients allied with the putin regime. Now, Paul Manafort faces 18 fraud charges from a time before he ever joined the trump campaign. This was all the ukrainian consulting work, which means theres a ton of paper and prosecutors are arguing to this jury whatever happens with mr. Gates, the paper doesnt lie. For example, also new, we can tell you, they showed an email today that manafort sent to gates with gates testifying that trumps former Campaign Chair wrote this is a disaster in april 2015 in that email, about a higher than expected tax bill, throwing in a wtf as well. The full quote is he told the jury hes not happy, i just saw this, wtf, how could i be blind
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articulated of a man of manifest lack of serious coherence, chaotic intelligence and the lack of an ability to really express himself by not only pulling upon the strands of history, but refusing to take into consideration what s going on today. so i think in one sense if we re going to talk about if we re going to be honest about donald trump, he has not helped black people, he has not enabled african-american people to move forward. he s riding a crest and a wave of economic prosperity put in place by his predecessor barack obama. he has refused to acknowledge the centrality of pollutiice brutality, and unarmed black people being assaulted by police in this country. the reality is that donald trump, while claiming through rhetoric to be for the blacks, what he has done is undermine the kbasty of african-american people to exist in a country where it s not only about the economic facts and the wherewithal we contend with, it is about the tone, it is about the rhetoric, it is about t