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Special Counsel’s office confirms a Manafort guilty plea is imminent. It looks like they’re having him plead to the whole litany of charges in the indictment, which almost definitely means no cooperation deal was struck.
Let me walk this back a little: the plea will be to only two counts—conspiracy against the US and obstruction. However, the criminal information recites the entire litany of conduct in the indictment. Let’s wait for the plea agreement to see if there’s a cooperation deal.
Manafort is set to lose his houses in NY and VA.
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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.
Scientists missing their grant funds, journalists who can’t access public records, inventors who can’t get their patents, entrepreneurs who can’t get business licenses ... This bit of context is, in all likelihood, barely scratching the surface of harms flowing from the shutdown.
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The wording: “these occurrences happened during a period when Mr. Manafort was managing a U.S. presidential campaign”
Maloni’s ‘clarification’ would harmonize this Madrid trip to meet Kilimnik with one referred to in another filing from the Special Counsel, though; on October 31, 2017, they wrote Manafort had been to Madrid ”within the last year.” cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2017/image…
But, if Maloni is correct, it leaves open a rather large question: why would Manafort be sharing 2016 polling data with Kilimnik 2-3 months *after* the election (when, if you don’t work for Nate Silver, it’s of extremely limited use)?
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You can copy the black highlighted “redactions” in the Manafort team’s filing, paste it somewhere else, and see what it says. Here’s the first one. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
The sentence @jonswaine reported is in the second redaction.
A few follow-ups for the completists among you.
-The Manafort team refiled its document to fix the redactions.
-The court has ordered the govt to file the "factual and evidentiary basis" of the five breaches it alleges next Monday 1/14; Manafort will have until 1/18 to reply
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Important thread re Mueller investigation:
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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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This is a very big deal. In my experience as a AUSA and criminal defense attorney, once a defendant starts exploring a plea, that defendant almost always pleads guilty (eventually). /1

wsj.com/articles/manaf…
It also seems important to me that the WSJ is reporting that Special Counsel Mueller broke off the talks because of undisclosed “issues”. /2
Pattern recognition (not inside information) leads me to suspect that Special Counsel Mueller was looking to “pardon-proof” the guilty plea, so that POTUS could not rescue Paul Manafort post-plea. /3
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💦SaltiestTears💦

Cornered rat Trump lashes out & strips JB’s of his SC, but was too cowardly to notify DNI Coats.

Smacks of Nixon’s enemies list.

Distraction from O’s scariness!

Lordy there are tapes, many tapes!

Everyone in the WH is scared s*tess O taped them saying X!
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Day 7: The cross examination of Rick Gates continues -- Manafort's lawyer estimated yesterday he'd need about an hour today. And then? Re-direct by prosecutors. And then? We don't know, the govt hasn't said who's after Gates. On all the news yesterday: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Judge taking a short recess. Rick Gates finished his testimony. Manafort's lawyer Kevin Downing asked about an interview Gates did with the FBI in 2014 (re: Ukrainian govt money) — Gates said he told the FBI about the existence of Manafort biz offshore accounts
Gates also said during cross that when he discussed the FBI interview with Manafort, Manafort told him to be "open" and provide info requested. Later, govt asked Gates if they were under investigation at the time, and Gates said he didn't think so. Was the IRS there? No, he said
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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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