CNN Manafort reaches out to Russian intelligence and DOJ pulls his bail deal.

[applegrove]

Unbelievable. Is he now back at house arrest?

Later: Manafort was ghostwriting an OP ed with a Ukranian and a Russian known by us Intel to have ties to Russian intelligence.

[Skraxx]

1. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh. My. God.

[TheDebbieDee]

13. Nothing on Google yet...

[Corvo Bianco]

2. Did he ask Julian if they can be bunk buddies?

I'm pretty sure Mueller saw this coming seven miles away and has just been waiting for the bright one to slip up.

[Deb]

3. Lock him up!

[mnmoderatedem]

4. Cheese and Rice!

how stupid can one person GET???

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Phillip Mudd on CNN is just losing it.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME??" he ranted. The panel seems to be gobsmacked at the whole thing. As am I. Manafort fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.

Manafort might end up sitting in a room with concrete walls, wearing an orange jumpsuit and flip-flops and eating cheese sandwiches off an aluminum tray while he waits for his trial.

[elehhhhna]

8. He will surely be taken into custody now

He will surely be taken into custody now
Although I expected that the day they gave him his real bail he'd be out of the US within two hours.

[BigmanPigman]

12. I hope his new cell mate Bubba will

take his food and snore. Manafort sure has pretty lips too....

[NanceGreggs]

6. Just saw this on CNN.

Host (forget his name) described it as "truly a shake-your-head story".

The CNN reporter who gave the details opined: "This makes me wonder if Paul Manafort is - well, if he's rational."

Phillip Mudd now on: "What the heck is this guy thinking?!? I thought I'd seen everything - but you just can't make this stuff up."

[elehhhhna]

9. He's thinking he'd rather get the hell out of the country than spend his life in prison

[NanceGreggs]

15. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised ...

... if did flee the country.

But what is so astounding here is that he broke the conditions of his house arrest by communicating with a Russian who is in the sights of the FBI - which means his house arrest might be revoked.

What was he thinking? If he had any hopes (or plans) of being spirited out of the country, he just made that impossible.

[Thrill]

16. He was no doubt getting out of the countrt

[MelissaB]

7. Off to the greatest!

[NastyRiffraff]

10. LA Times has it:

Paul Manafort ghost-wrote an editorial about his political work in Ukraine, violating a court order, according to a new court filing from the special counsel’s office.

The allegation was disclosed Monday as the reason the special counsel was backing out of a deal on bail with Manafort’s lawyers. The deal would have loosened the terms of house arrest for President Trump’s former campaign manager.

Manafort wanted to be allowed to travel among a few states in return for agreeing to forfeit $11.6 million in property if he missed a court appearance.

The special counsel’s office, which is investigating whether anyone in Trump’s orbit helped Russia interfere in last year’s presidential campaign, said Manafort helped draft the editorial in recent days, working with a Russian who has ties to that country’s intelligence services.

LA Times

Is he a moron? Did he think Dump would save him?

[OilemFirchen]

11. If this is true, he should be placed in custody without bail.

His plea agreement should also be reconsidered.

[tblue37]

18. Papadopoulos has the plea agreement. Manafort doesn't. nt

[OilemFirchen]

19. Yes, of course.

My mistake.

[Roland99]

14. He just surpassed Doug Feith as the *dumbest motherfucker on the face of the earth

[JHB]

17. I'm guessing the bail deal was offered BECAUSE they already knew about this...

...and the door would be slammed shut within what? 100 hours?

Clearly establishes Manafort as a bad-faith actor, serves as a solid point of additional leverage (no "can you prove it?" because hell yes), maybe turns over a few other rocks and exposes the crawly things under them, etc.

[Tatiana]

20. Is he that stupid, that arrogant or is he being blackmailed?

I honestly can't tell...

It seems like he has faith in a Trump pardon.

[applegrove]

21. I think he was ghost writing an article with the Ukranian and the Russian

with Russian intelligence ties to try to exonerate himself. He was told specifically not to go to the media to put any weight on the scale of justice. That is exactly what he did only I guess he was not planning on signing his name.