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Sounds like Manafort just totally folded.
Why?
Surprising.
Cha
(297,349 posts)madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)1. He cant trust Trump to give him a pardon, which in itself could be obstruction of justice.
2. At 67 years old, he didnt want to die in prison.
RDANGELO
(3,433 posts)The Russians figured out that Trump is so unstable that he is more of a danger than an asset. So they let Manefort know to go ahead and rat on Trump, and that they wont hurt him. Their intelligence services might even be talking to ours to some degree. He is not much use to them now anyways, since so much of the country knows what's going on.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Guess they think they got their moneys worth out of the shit gibbon and are now cutting any losses.
Manafort gets to protect his family. Win-win.
ecstatic
(32,713 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Trapped like a RAT
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I know, I know, Rachel LOVES the details and even does the voices. You can tell she's in her element. But tonight was just too much of it. Sorry Rachel.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)No matter how resolute he may have been when this ordeal began, reality eventually cut through the bs and pushed his nose into the certainty of death in prison. Hios self preservation instinct kicked in and, "voila!": "How can I help you,Mr. Mueller?"I
janx
(24,128 posts)in addition to the charges he was just found guilty of! It was either die in prison or cooperate.
ecstatic
(32,713 posts)who would spend life in prison before "snitching." I still think he's a hardened thug, but apparently Mueller had him cornered in a way that was actually worse than the threat posed by Putin.