"I was living beyond my means ... I regret it ... I'm taking responsibility for it. I made a mistake"

[kpete]

If they do it often it isn't a mistake it's just their behavior......

RICK GATES, on why he stole from PAUL MANAFORT: "In essence, I was living beyond my means … I regret it … I'm taking responsibility for it. I made a mistake."


@kenvogel

I just asked KEVIN DOWNING whether RICK GATES’s remorse & his matter-of-fact admission of his lies & misdeeds had effectively inoculated him against the defense's efforts to cast him as an untrustworthy narrator. “I’m going to wait. We’ll see what the jury says.”

Link to tweet

[PoliticAverse]

1. And they only "take responsibility" when they're caught and they can make a deal. n/t

[BigmanPigman]

2. This crossed my mind too.

Manafort lived so far beyond his means that making $4 or 5 million a year still wasn't enough to keep him out of debt. He and Gates have said they didn't know how much debt they had since they didn't keep track of their personal finances that closely. Huh?!? They didn't make simple "mistakes" and now they have learned their "lesson". That is BS.

[janx]

3. I was living beyond my means, so I had to

steal several hundreds of thousands from my partner in crime!

[janx]

4. For most of us, living beyond our means

translates to not taking a vacation, not buying too much wine, not going out to eat.

THESE GUYS?!