Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Manafort’s Lawyers Screwed Up: They Confirm He Lied & Colluded With Russia for Trump

How apropos that sign is based on the following story


First this short reminder from the Washington Post
(Trump collusion denials)

Super big news today (from Rolling Stone and other sources as well) and now Paul Manafort's lawyers are on Trump's shit list at this turns the heat up full bore.

Highlights:

Lawyers for Manafort, who is already convicted of tax and bank fraud last year, submitted a filing in Washington, DC federal court that responded to Robert Mueller’s assertion that Manafort had lied to Mueller’s office and thus violated his plea agreement. 

The lawyers pushed back on that claim saying that Manafort had extensively cooperated with Mueller meeting with the government lawyers and investigators a dozen times and twice testifying before a grand jury. 

But then Manafort’s team screwed up.

They tried to redact four different passages in their filing, but failed to do so properly, leaving the redacted text in plain sight.

One improperly redacted text says that Manafort allegedly misled Mueller about meeting with Konstantin Kilimnik during the 2016 presidential campaign and discussing a “Ukraine peace plan with Kilimnik on more than one occasion.” 

NOTEWORTHY: Kilimnik has connections to Russian intelligence.

A second improperly redacted section revealed that Mueller said that Manafort “lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign.”

A third improper redaction detailed rebuttals from Manafort’s lawyers about two other alleged instances of Manafort misleading statements including about him allegedly contacting Trump in May 2018.

The whole story at the Rolling Stone link.

My 2 cents and the B/L from that piece: It hasn’t been a good day for the “NO COLLUSION!” contingent led by President Trump himself.

I suspect that that the Trump team pucker factor just went up by a factor of ten. 

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