Over the weekend, Robert Mueller's suggestions for Paul Manafort's sentence were made public. The document was, in fact, a tome. Heather Digby Parton writes:
As it turned out, the memorandum wasn’t filed until Saturday afternoon and it turned out to be a richly detailed 800-page document about Paul Manafort’s sordid history of criminality. There is little doubt that this man has spent a lifetime consorting with terrible people doing terrible things and making a lot of money at it. You’d think Donald Trump would have done a little bit of research before he tapped such a person to run his campaign, particularly since one of his major campaign promises was that he would only hire the very best people. Considering how many other corrupt, criminal, incompetent hires there have been to his campaign and administration, that clearly cannot be among those “promises kept” he likes to brag about. There has never been a more motley group of misfits populating one presidency in American history.
Some believe that, because there were no hints at further indictments, the investigation is coming to a close. Parton doesn't buy that argument:
The fact that Mueller didn’t include any details about a larger conspiracy argues for the idea that there’s more to come, either in new indictments or that big report. For this week, we’ll have to content ourselves with the first major public hearing since James Comey testified in June of 2017. Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen makes his appearance on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee — on a split screen, while Trump meets with Kim Jong-un in Hanoi. The Trump presidency gets more surreal by the day.
Certainly, when Cohen testifies, he will also offer a hard look into Trump World. And I'm betting that Trump's son and son-in-law will not escape Mueller's net.
Stay tuned.
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5 comments:
While the wheels of justice may move slowly, Owen, as long as they keep turning is all one can reasonably hope for or expect.
My impression, Lorne, is that Mueller builds has cases carefully. And because he is careful, he's not finished.
"You’d think Donald Trump would have done a little bit of research before he tapped such a person to run his campaign, "
I suspect he did and got exactly the sort of person he wanted Owen.
I agree, Rural. Trump knows all about liars and crooks.
Spot on, Rural. Mac
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