Mueller’s team appears to have no doubt that Manafort was lying to them. That means they didn’t really need his testimony, at all. It also means they had no need to keep secrets — they could keep giving Manafort the impression that he was pulling a fast one over the prosecutors, all while reporting misleading information to Trump that he could use to fill out his open book test. Which increases the likelihood that Trump just submitted sworn answers to those questions full of lies.
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Trump investigations field guide
anexplanationofunfortunateevents:
One
of the first posts here is a field guide to the various
investigations into the Trump family. At that point, the chances that
any of them would be held accountable for anything looked even more
grim than they do now, so it’s kind of nice to say that the old
post isn’t even worth updating.Still
true (for now): American government is divided into two systems, the federal
system and the individual states. The federal and state governments
are each divided into three branches. The legislature (Congress)
makes the laws, the judicial branch interprets the laws, and the
executive branch (the president and governors) enforces the laws. To
wildly oversimplify, the separation of powers into those three
branches is supposed to work like rock-paper-scissors: every game
eventually has a winner, but there’s no one option that’s
always the winner. The thing is, the game depends on people
actually playing by and enforcing the rules. If one player is a
spoiled brat who won’t throw on “shoot” or always has a
screaming tantrum about how he won because he has the best rock,
the biggest, most beautiful rock, and the other player just caves
every time, it’s no good.So
you can see why folks are worried.
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