Paul Manafort is being tried on 18 charges over $US60 million ($AU81 million) he allegedly earned working for a pro-Russia politician in Ukraine and hid across more than 30 foreign bank accounts. If convicted, he could face up to 300 years in prison.
The trial is the first to result from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible links between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia, and a conviction would give added momentum to Mueller who has already indicted or secured guilty pleas from 32 people and three companies.
Little surprise than that the US President is now pushing a new legal defence.
“There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!” he tweeted.
Others had a different opinion.
Yes, Mr Trump – collusion is not a crime. But ‘conspiracy to defraud the United States’ is.
Discussion1 Comment
Surprising that your joining in the anti Trump rhetoric. I wonder what you call the Clinton’s $20 mill proven payments to Russians though the British Spy Christopher Steel to purchase a fake dossier which in turn led to the fake FISA appeals which is the whole basis of the 2 year millions of dollar’s fake Russian story which the MSM has totally ignored, or the fake FBI collusion in omitting Hillary Clinton’s collusion with the Uranium One deal which has FBI / Clinton cabal fingerprints all over it. This will be the biggest political act of treason in the history of western democracy and the MSM socialist media have covered it up.