Interesting. Manafort has been up to plenty of shady stuff that didn’t potentially involve the Trump administration. Will this be the start of going up the chain or more of a tangential indictment?
The easy favorite came through, though if you had any money on Mr. Gates (first you had to have heard of him), you’re doing pretty good.
It’s Mueller Time! Fun little video, the special effects aren’t spectacular but quite amusing nonetheless.
And simultaneously, “US warns of N Korean ‘provocations’ as it sends bombers, carriers to region.”
So, Trump’s not going to derail the investigation by firing Mueller–he’s going to do it by starting WWIII?? :smack:
I wasn’t expecting it to be Manafort, but there have been many times in my life when I’ve been happy to be wrong, and this is one of them.
Unsealed indictment (PDF) against Manafort and Gates. Should make for some dry breakfast reading.
It claims that Manafort illegally received more than $18 million in laundered funds.
But really, who has’t laundered millions of dollars at some point in their lives?
That’s amateur hour. Surely Donald has done more than that in a good week.
Related to the campaign, or otherwise?
So, you’re enjoying some relish on your “nothing burger”? 
Sorry for crossposting, but this is a good, quick rundown of the charges: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/924991226008489984
So Manafort was an undisclosed agent for pro-Russian interests attempting to influence US politics and secretly on their payroll when he ran Trump’s campaign.
But this has nothing to do with Russia’s efforts to help Trump win the U.S. election.
Is that about right?
So, see? Trump was right! There WAS no collusion with Russia! Fake News!
It was Ukraine.
Get the nothingburger combo, it’s a better deal.
GOP apologists will be dancing in the streets, this particular indictment doesn’t seem to be campaign related. I’m sure this is the first of many indictments to many people, some of which will be campaign related and some of which will not.
There’s another one.
On October 5th, George Papadopolous pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI.
Yeah. We still saying nothingburger?
Well, they didn’t get Al Capone on booze running, either.
Wait, Webster’s dad? I don’t believe it! I don’t *want *to believe it! That poor little Webster’s already been through so much.
Specifically he lied about, and has now confirmed, that the Trump campaign tried to collude with Russia wrt the hacked emails.