If Manafort Is Guilty, Would He Flip on Trump?

[babylonsister]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a56929/will-manafort-flip/


If Manafort Is Guilty, Would He Flip on Trump?
Robert Mueller is zeroing in.
By Charles P. Pierce
Aug 10, 2017


LINCOLN, NEBRASKA—Even out here, hard by the missile silos, we noticed that, when it comes to Paul Manafort and Donald J. Trump, like Donkey Kong, it is on. There was the early-morning FBI raid on Manafort's house, and "early-morning FBI raid" is never a phrase in connection with which you want your name connected in a headline. At almost the same time, the National Enquirer, the most diseased of the house organs at the beck and call of the president*, teed up Manafort with one of its typically nuanced front pages:



Yeah, I'd say that Manafort has been simultaneously thrown over the side and under the bus. There's a certain raw predatory glee in which this president* dispatches inconvenient people that is fascinating in a purely clinical sense. But it doesn't make for good government, and it sure as hell doesn't help you when there's a special prosecutor on your trail and when the person being dispatched probably has a paper trail that leads straight up your spinal column.

Manafort always was the key. The guy made a career lobbying for really terrible people, eventually (and inevitably) lobbying for really terrible people connected to the crooked Russian oligarchy. The FBI's forensic accountants must be looking at his books the way that the Leakeys looked at Olduvai Gorge. My guess is that, very soon, it will reach the point at which Manafort would roll on the Archangel Gabriel to keep from spending several centuries in jail. He will have to give the prosecutor something, and he knows why the Enquirer piled on during the worst day of his life. This bird can sing.

[haveahart]

1. Idon't think so. The Russians would get him for that.

[emulatorloo]

4. I doubt they give a shit

[hedda_foil]

12. Good point.

[WhiteTara]

2. I saw rumors about Trump and Hope Hicks

as being sexually involved. That's sick!

[emulatorloo]

3. He's out for number one. Doubt he has any interest in going to prison for Trump on an espionage

charge.

[bettyellen]

5. I've read it's not just his jail time that's leverage, it's his son in laws... which explains the

Awful things one of his daughters texted to the other about him being evil. Does he care enough about his family to spare any of them? His daughter called his fortune "blood money".

[Gothmog]

6. Is water wet?

[patricia92243]

7. Go to prison or cop a plea?? Decisions, decisions. Of course he is going to tell everything

he knows about Trump. That is the whole reason he has been arrested - the weakest link and all that.

[jberryhill]

10. Arrested? He hasn't been arrested

[jberryhill]

8. Hold out for a pardon

[Chasstev365]

9. In a New York Minute!

[dalton99a]

11. If he doesn't see a pardon in sight

[MFM008]

13. Maggots promised him

A fat juicy pardon.
So no.

[MiddleClass]

14. I think the bird is warming up his vocal cords, while Robert Mueller is warming up reason to sing

It's dark right now. There's no moon, but guess what happens is a short amount of time?

Sun comes up, guess what birds do naturally at that point?

You ready, Longhorn foghorn?