Trump: 'It's Very Sad What They've Done To Paul Manafort'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Nicole Lafond | August 17, 2018 11:04 am

President Donald Trump on Friday expressed sympathy for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort while a jury at a federal court in Virginia deliberates the case.

“I don’t talk about that now,” Trump said from the South Lawn when asked an inaudible question about Manafort. “I think the whole Manafort trial is very sad. When you look at what’s going on there, I think it’s a very sad day for our country. He worked for me for a very short period of time. And you know what? He happens to be a very good person. I think it’s very sad what they’ve done to Paul Manafort.”

The jury is currently deliberating whether Manafort is guilty of financial fraud crimes related to his use of foreign bank accounts.

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[lagomorph777]

1. He already knows the verdict?

[Grammy23]

5. He's a very bright guy. One smart cookie.

So yea, he probably did intuit the verdict.

He forgot to mention what Manafort did to himself, huh?

[olegramps]

15. His only care is that it reflects on him. I am being persecuted by proxy he wails.

[jayschool2013]

2. To be clear

To Trump justice is sad.

[Fred Sanders]

29. He said sad Three, four times? Sad lack of vocabulary...good thing the jury is sequestered or

yet another example of attempted obstruction of justice by a man with no clue of the words meaning.

Sad, sad, sad. 😭.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Is Trumpie late for his Tee Time?

Off to New Jersey again?

[rurallib]

13. teeing up a pardon?

[Mc Mike]

4. D Rump is compassionate. His heart overflows with the milk of human kindness.

Also, he hardly knows the guy, couldn't pick manafort out in a room with 2 people in it.

[Grammy23]

8. Thanks for that "Laurel and Hardy" belly laugh this morning.

tRump really is a class A jerk and he just begs to be mocked. Let the mocking continue for it truly is an antidote to his daily madness. That and impeachment will be just what the doctor ordered for all of his victims. (Us!)

[Mc Mike]

18. Hi, Grammy. Thanks for the re and laugh.

You can tell he's lying when he talks about love, compassion, beauty, goodness, etc.

All the hate, evil, attacks, ugly, that's when you can take him at his word.

Love to play poker against him. Let some air out of that overfull o farts orange balloon.

He's a clown, but not scary like those woods clowns or pennywise.

[Jersey Devil]

6. Total irresponsibility for a President to comment while jury is deliberating and not sequestered

This is beyond irresponsible. It should be an impeachable act.

[dalton99a]

10. Absolutely.

[Grammy23]

12. Are you kidding me? If outright obstruction of justice

does not bring out the impeachment squad, mere opining on the treatment of Manafort (pre-verdict) won’t raise an eyebrow with that crowd.

[Cosmocat]

16. Only if it were a D POTUS

who said "Man, what a fort!" during a trip to a national park ...

[irresistable]

35. My only question is, since this is about as high profile as a case can get,

why wasn't the jury sequestered?

[Jersey Devil]

38. At the very least the jury should have been sequestered

when they began deliberations. With the news of jury deliberations on every single news broadcast the chance of jurors being exposed to coverage should have been totally eliminated.

[BlueJac]

7. Pathetic...

what a loser!

[duforsure]

9. Again the opposite of the truth

He's a career criminal who has gotten caught for his crimes , that should be a relief but not for trump , his close friend of 30 years plus. He's already projecting how unfairly he's being treated, FOR COMMITTING CRIMES! Only another criminal would do that, which trump is. trump has to con his supporters into believing a criminal shouldn't be punished. He ran a s a law and order candidate, but he is the opposite of that. He's the lawless and corrupt candidate where his friends and family and himself should be above the rule of law, but not for those that don't support him, they're guilty as hell, then should receive the harshest penalties. Manifort is a really , really bad guy , and trump supports him now, still. Hmmmmm.

[C_U_L8R]

11. It's called Justice, you dumbass

And 'they' are the Judicial System.
Don't like it, move back to Russia.

[Shumi]

14. Let the jury decide

Trump is trying to influence conservative jurors.

[turbinetree]

17. He is fucking traitor, asshole, do you not realize that he has fucking blood on his hands

absolutely amazing...................Ukraine, and also in Russia if you were to think about it one iota........ .........but I digress, once a traitor always a traitor.............and he made his bed...... ............but I digress................


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough......................vote

[onit2day]

39. Check if you're registered at vote.org

[elmac]

19. very important news, very important! nt

[Glamrock]

20. Trump is right.

I mean, all Manafort did was try to sell cabinet positions, avoid paying taxes, and defraud numerous banks. Who's not guilty of that? Sad indeed!

[RockRaven]

21. Of course Trump doesn't like seeing anyone prosecuted for tax fraud / bank fraud; hits close to home

The same way he never believes sexual assault/harassment accusers.

[Harker]

23. Yes. What "they've" done is charge Paulie with serious crimes

that Trumpsky views as smart everyday business techniques.

[ProfessorGAC]

37. Presuming He Has Enough Money. . .

. . .to actual benefit from what he CLAIMS to do as a "smart" business person.

I have my doubts.

[Harker]

41. Rules schmules...

Laws are for the little people.

[ProfessorGAC]

42. He's One Of The Little People

The continued scamming tells me the experts are right
He's broke

[Harker]

43. Hope so.

Some people seem to manage to float through life blowing other people's money while lounging in material gaudiness.

If you're right, I don't think the façade holds up for much longer.

[kimbutgar]

22. I'm sure those pardon papers are signed and ready to be announced after he is senetenced

[Turbineguy]

24. Trump left out the part about

Manafort's coffee making skills.

[truthisfreedom]

25. Wistfully looking into his own future... "It's very sad what they

did to me, very sad. I was a good man, it’s just so sad that they didn’t go after crooked Hillary. Such a sad day for America. Sad.”

[truthisfreedom]

26. Hey agent orange: SNOWFLAKE!

[Fred Sanders]

30. Sad how his rant over Agent Orange, of napalm being used in Apocolypse Now must have had

many vets chuckling over his clues reference to his own sad nickname.

[onecaliberal]

27. More obstruction in plain sight.

[yallerdawg]

28. John King on CNN arched an eyebrow and commented...

"He said this while a jury is deliberating the case?"

[steve2470]

33. exactly, he has no respect at all for the judicial system nt

[PSPS]

31. "They?"

[steve2470]

32. I can see that PARDON PEN being taken out, cleaned and warmed up now

If he doesn't pardon Manafort, I'd be shocked.

[dalton99a]

36. +1. He's got a stack of them all typed up and ready to go

[ooky]

34. Its very sad for Paul Manafort

Even if Trump pardon's him at least he's lost all thats important to him. His money.

[pecosbob]

40. Just wait and see what we do to you...

it won't be pretty.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

44. This is pretty much what he said about each political person he's pardoned.

"He wasn't treated fairly," is the excuse he's used. Of course, that's "fair" as defined by Donnie Two Scoops, whose moral compass is stuck on "none."