This is legitimately shocking inasmuch as it is criminal obstruction in plain sight
2/ The stories of a Manafort plea that I said didn't make sense didn't make sense until the new info we've just gotten that Manafort doesn't care what his DC sentence is because he's almost certainly been promised a pardon. Mueller should end negotiations and seek life in prison.
3/ I wrote over and over again that NBC had reported in January that Trump was telling friends on the phone that he'd be in trouble if Manafort flipped, but knew Manafort wouldn't. Now we know how Trump knew that, and it is criminal Obstruction of Justice beyond almost any doubt.
4/ Mueller needs to get the longest possible series of consecutive sentences from Paul Manafort, from the largest number of charges and trials possible, in order to make Trump's eventual pardon even more clearly criminal than it is. Plus, more trials keeps Manafort in jail.
