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“think about how it’ll play elsewhere...” -Manafort to an unknown interlocutor in a taped prison call, talking about being tried by a DC jury first, June 20, 2018

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My read is this comment reflects such an ugly, cynical theory that I’m hesitant to explain it.
For my money, he’s talking about how it will play with President Trump—how Trump, a known racist, will react to seeing him first convicted by the sort of jury panel you get in DC rather than the sort of jury panel you get in Alexandria. They want to use race to provoke a pardon.
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Kind of hilariously the Associated Press has been sending Erik Wemple factually false statements about its fact check tweet all day.
(The parties *had* found common ground, which is why the senate passed its funding bills with a voice vote late last year. Then Trump panicked and fled the agreement.)
(Also, as we all know but it’s impolite to acknowledge, the tweet was intended to express something much more meatheaded)
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This misrepresents Bari Weiss’s column as well as the New York Times subscribers and readers who have criticized it.
poynter.org/ethics-trust/2…
Weiss’s column isn’t a travelogue about why she recommends Australian hotels to other tourists. It’s a disquisition on Australian society commending it as somehow uniquely free of the ills of the modern world, and it’s ignorant of what happened in Australia while she was there.
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This also needs context. More people are harmed by a federal government shutdown than federal employees. Native American communities, in particular, are immediately adversely affected. As the shutdown continues, the harms expand and multiply throughout the country’s population.
There are businesses that rely on the federal government as a customer—contractors of all sorts and sizes—and as a landlord—e.g. vendors at national parks. People who own and work for those businesses are harmed by the interruption of their income.
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Wow, this is nuts:

"By scrolling over the redacted text, and copying it and pasting it to another document — a function that isn't supposed to work when a court document is properly redacted — the full text shows up."

@almostjingo @Techno_Fog @themarketswork @TheLastRefuge2
I just tried this and it worked. Wow.
source: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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Manafort flipped. This is the "statement of the offenses" in which Manafort confesses to doing the crimes...

assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4883…
This first count #Manafort admits to is violation of 18 USC § 371, "Conspiracy Against the United States."

What does that mean? He conspired to commit a crime against the US or to defraud the US:
A conspiracy, definitionally, requires more than one conspirator. Who did Manafort conspire with? The first paragraph dealing with Count 1 names Richard Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik "and others"
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Going to do a (short?) THREAD on the #Manafort Superceding Criminal Information. Need to tease out some info that will come up re media involvement and Congressional Rs 😉

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First, just tagging a Manafort shell co that I hadn't heard mentioned before, yet the date/loc interests me: Pompolo Limited created 4/13, UK (pg 6):

E.g., this is the first shell co that Manafort reg'd in the UK. WHY❓ 🧐
Mueller tells us Manafort used the shell cos to hide payments he received from Ukraine authorities:
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#Manafort charging document for today's guilty plea includes details of his planting disinformation in US press to smear political rivals of his pro-Russia clients in Ukraine. Eg "Plant some stink on Tymo"—painting a female rival as a criminal who paid for murder. Sound familiar?
Manafort had used the same propaganda smear tactics in Ukraine that Trump rolled out in his campaign for president in 2016. Manafort not only had Tymo soliciting murder. He pushed tribal divisions, using "Obama Jews" & anti-Semitism to tarnish her. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4883…
#Manafort manipulated the media with disinformation and then used those planted news stories to manipulate US govt: "I have someone pushing it on the NY Post. Bada bing bada boom…The Jewish community will take this out on Obama on election day if he does nothing.”
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Two new filings in tonight from the special counsel's office in Paul Manafort's criminal case in DC. First up: Opposition to Manafort's motion to a bill of particulars, which is basically asking for more info to back up the indictment assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4444…
Prosecutors say the "grand jury returned a factually detailed indictment that describes the specific circumstances underlying the charges." They also say the idea Manafort can't figure out who the anonymized people/companies are "strains credulity" assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4444…
Mueller's office also filed its opposition to Manafort's motion to suppress evidence seized from his storage unit. Prosecutors defended the initial search with a Manafort employee, and said the warrant was detailed enough when read along w/ subject crimes assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4444…
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