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Analysis | 5 big takeaways from the new Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort filings
#SaturdayMorning #MuellerFriday #CohenSentencingMemo #ManafortMemo washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/…
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2-"Federal prosecutors drew some more important lines between Russia and those connected to President Trump on Friday, in a trio of filings in the Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort cases.Beginning late Friday afternoon, we saw Cohen sentencing recommendations filed by both the
3-"Southern District of New York and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, and a document from Mueller’s team laying out Paul Manafort’s alleged lies to it. In all three, the plot thickened for Trump just a little bit. Below are the big takeaways.
Wait...did Trump just tweet that today's Mueller filings 'totally clears the President'? Well, read this @realDonaldTrump :
#CohenSentencingMemo #ManafortMemo #MuellerFriday
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#CohenSentencingMemo #ManafortMemo #MuellerFriday
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2-"At the end of the day Friday, we learned what federal prosecutors in New York think of Michael Cohen: "Federal prosecutors said in a new court filing that President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen should spend significant time in prison — saying his assistance to
3-"investigators probing the president does not outweigh his past crimes.The filing was made Friday as Cohen prepares to be sentenced next week in two separate cases, one involving campaign finance violations and lying to a bank, and another in which he admitted to lying to
I will now read for myself the #Mueller #CohenSentencingMemo and comment on it here in real-time like I previously did the one from the Feds.
Mueller says Cohen ADMITTED lying to Congress specifically to conceal the president's involvement in the Moscow business project, and give false impression matter was settled before the Iowa Caucuses.
The tone of Mueller's memo seems friendlier to the Feds, which was a 38-page verbal spanking (see my thoughts on that one posted here earlier).
I think we can safely conclude that Cohen (as I predicted) has given Mueller nothing on collusion. Cohen's crime concerns lying about a deal that didn't come to close happening; proposed meetings/contacts w/ Russians went nowhere; and nothing is redacted. #CohenSentencingMemo 
Because the Cohen doc offers them nothing else, the collusion hopeful will seize on this ambiguous sentence. But it could be read either way:
1/ So I have bad news for the collusion hopeful: none of Manafort's "crimes and lies" have anything to do with events that took place during the 2016 campaign, or pertaining to collusion w/ Russia.
