TPM "Conway Emphasizes Manafort Trial Has 'Nothing To Do With The Campaign' (more fake news conjob)

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conway-emphasizes-manafort-trial-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-campaign

Kellyanne Conway emphasized Tuesday that The Virginia-based trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort “centers on matters that have nothing to do with the campaign.”

“I would note for your audience, Bill, that the judge has very strictly instructed no mention of Paul Manafort’s role in the Trump campaign: Don’t mention Trump, don’t mention Russia, don’t mention collusion,” Conway, who managed Trump’s campaign after Manafort, told Fox News’ Bill Hemmer Tuesday morning.

She’s largely correct: Manafort is alleged to have carried out massive bank and tax fraud, among other things. And both Mueller and Manafort’s lawyers have said his campaign work should stay out of the courtroom. Another trial, set in Washington, D.C., will begin in September.

Still, Manafort was charged in the course of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and related matters. And the charges against Manafort were viewed by many as an attempt to get him to cooperate with prosecutors in their cases against other Trump campaign affiliates.

Conway’s description of Manafort’s activity in the 2016 election — “his brief tenure at the Trump campaign several years ago” — also fits a pattern of the Trump camp trying to minimize their connections to Manafort.

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[Greybnk48]

1. Please say "disinformation" or "propaganda."

The whole "fake news" thing created by President FATLAZYSLOB, is starting to grate, just like saying the media word "meddling" in stead of the grownup word, "espionage." It's like saying "fudge" instead of "fuck." Or "folks" instead of "terrorists."

And FUCK Conway.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. I save the term for her - she is the queen, the architect, of the "no truth" movement in my book

The worst of the worst of the worst

but point well taken

[gratuitous]

3. Conway's sort of right

This first trial will simply show what sort of a charlatan, con man, and money launderer Paul Manafort was and how he built his career. The second trial, in September, will be the one that has to do with the campaign, and how Donald Trump came to hire such a low-life to be his most intimate campaign adviser.

[ffr]

4. Someone, maybe even from here on DU, showed him some love.

[dalton99a]

5. +1