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BREAKING NEWS (this evening): Manafort May Be About to Flip, Legal Experts Say lawandcrime.com/high-profile/l…
2/ NBC reported months ago that Trump privately told friends on the phone that he would be in trouble if one person in particular flipped: Manafort. If that news does break in the next few days, I don't know what the hell Trump will do. He seems to think it'd be curtains for him.
3/ Wouldn't it be crazy if Manafort were one of the "U.S. Persons" in the Butina affidavit, which would mean he was secretly working for the Russians for months *before* joining the Trump campaign—which I'd then bet some of the people who hired him knew at the time?

Just musing.
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2/ Rosenstein previously said he'd serve two years—so his departure around now isn't surprising anyway, and (in fact) will make it easier for him to coordinate with Mueller as a witness rather than a supervisor. Too many people are reading way too much into his pending departure.
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*ONE WEEK IN 2016*

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August 2, 2016: Manafort meets Deripaska agent Kilimnik in NYC
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NOTE: Deripaska calls himself "one with the State [Kremlin]."

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*MEDIA'S AMAZING MANEUVER*

1) falsely requiring a single Hollywood-style "smoking gun" on collusion
2) reporting breathlessly on a revelation anyone in Hollywood would call a smoking gun (Manafort's delivery of data to the Kremlin)
3) pretending we're still looking for collusion
2/ I mean wow, it's almost like Donald Trump calls media his greatest enemy when it's in fact a stalwart ally, and media claims to be looking as hard as it can for collusion when in fact it just wants to keep us *watching* its "search" for collusion as America goes down the drain
3/ And somehow it's now been a *year* I've been trying to call media's attention to a January '18 NBC report saying Trump thinks Manafort could sink him, which any attorney or journalist would consider key evidence Trump in fact *did* know what Manafort was up to with the Kremlin
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