Listening to Rachel

[dhol82]

Sounds like Manafort just totally folded.
Why?
Surprising.

[Cha]

1. Dunno know.. Just saw this tweet..

Link to tweet

[madaboutharry]

2. I think there are two reasons.

1. He can’t trust Trump to give him a pardon, which in itself could be obstruction of justice.

2. At 67 years old, he didn’t want to die in prison.

[RDANGELO]

3. Here is a guess.

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]

6. Now that makes the most sense of anything I've seen.

Guess they think they got their money’s worth out of the shit gibbon and are now cutting any losses.
Manafort gets to protect his family. Win-win.

[ecstatic]

9. +1000.nt

[njhoneybadger]

4. They must have shown him something that convinced him there was no way out

Trapped like a RAT

[ProudLib72]

5. I gave up watching because I couldn't stand all the transcript reading

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]

7. He is human (sort of) and he just ran into his "aw shit" parameter.

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]

8. Think of what this man is up against,

in addition to the charges he was just found guilty of! It was either die in prison or cooperate.

[ecstatic]

10. I'm stunned too. I really thought Manafort was a hardened thug

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.