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What’s the deal with the Manafort and Gates indictments? Is this the beginning of the end of Trump’s Presidency? Has Mueller found all those colluding Russians, Russians, Russians?
Even from Paul Manafort’s perspective, there may be less to this
indictment than meets the eye — it’s not so much a serious allegation of
“conspiracy against the United States” as a dubious case of disclosure
violations and money movement that would never have been brought had he not
drawn attention to himself by temporarily joining the Trump campaign.
From President Trump’s perspective, the indictment is a boon from
which he can claim that the special counsel has no actionable collusion case.
It appears to reaffirm former FBI director James Comey’s multiple assurances
that Trump is not a suspect. And, to the extent it looks like an attempt to
play prosecutorial hardball with Manafort, the president can continue to
portray himself as the victim of a witch hunt.
McCarthy’s article at National
Review is here.
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