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Friday Comedy: Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’ - SteveG - 08-17-2018
Trump exploring the outer limits of comedy. However...This is NOT The Onion.
Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402326-trump-defends-manafort-as-a-good-person
President Trump on Friday defended his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as a “good person” even as a jury deliberates a verdict in his financial fraud trial.
Trump called the trial, the first stemming from the special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, “very sad."
“He happens to be a very good person and it happens to be very sad what they’ve done to Paul Manafort,” the president told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing for New York.
The president would not give an answer when asked if he is prepared to pardon Manafort.
Trump's defense of Manafort is unusual. The president has sought to distance himself from the one-time GOP lobbyist, ever since Manafort was ousted from the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016. However, the president has stepped up his attacks on the Mueller probe, which he again labeled a “rigged witch hunt,” as it has closed in on members of his inner circle. “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,” Trump said.
But Trump again sought to downplay Manafort's role on his campaign, saying he only worked for him for a “very short period of time.” Manafort spent three months as Trump's campaign chairman, including a critical stretch during the contentious Republican National Convention.
Re: Friday Comedy: Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’ - neophyte - 08-17-2018
"... I think it’s a very sad day for our country,” Trump said."
Left unsaid: "Because it goes against the idea that it is the DUTY of all US citizens to cheat the US government out of taxes."
Re: Friday Comedy: Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’ - DeusxMac - 08-17-2018
"I’ve always liked Michael [Cohen]. And I think he’s a good person..."
Trump...Flynn is "a very good person."
"Mr. Bannon..., he's a good man. He's a good person"
Trump called his longtime friend Roger Ailes... “a very, very good person”
Trump: O'Reilly "a good person"
“He’s a fine person, he’s a very good person,” Trump said of Lewandowski.
...he heartily endorsed Mr Saccone as a “really good person,”
President Trump defended the white nationalists who protested in Charlottesville on Tuesday, saying they included "some very fine people,"
Re: Friday Comedy: Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’ - sekker - 08-17-2018
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Re: Friday Comedy: Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’ - Pam - 08-17-2018
When you're guilty of the same or similar crimes, what do you say....
Re: Friday Comedy: Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’ - pdq - 08-17-2018
sekker wrote:
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
No, no - I'm pretty sure that was Inigo Montoya (aka Mandy Potemkin).
Re: Friday Comedy: Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’ - hal - 08-17-2018
Ruth Marcus tweeted this today (you should follow her)
Please identify one thing about Paul Manafort that makes him a good person. Stashing cash from autocrats/kleptocrats/oligarchs in foreign bank accounts to avoid paying taxes due? Submitting phony documentation to extract loans to finance his obscene lifestyle? One thing...
And while you’re wracking your brains (throw the witness tampering allegations in there, btw), consider the outrageous inappropriateness of the president VOUCHING for Manafort and against THE UNITED STATES (in the form of DOJ) WHILE the jury deliberates.
https://twitter.com/RuthMarcus
Re: Friday Comedy: Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’ - $tevie - 08-17-2018
The jurors aren't sequestered. Trump is hoping this reaches their ears despite admonitions from the judge to avoid any news. When it comes to slime bucketry, Trump is a pro.
Re: Friday Comedy: Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’ - rjmacs - 08-17-2018
All you need is 1 ideologue in the group of 12.
Re: Friday Comedy: Trump defends Manafort as a ‘good person’ - pdq - 08-17-2018
rjmacs wrote:
All you need is 1 ideologue in the group of 12.
True, but that result is a hung jury/mistrial, assuming that one person digs in his/her heels on all 17 (?) counts. And if that were to be the case, it would be pretty obvious, and if Mueller and Co. wanted, they could retry the case. But Manafort's next trial starts next month, IIRC, and that one would put him away for life too, IIRC, so it might be a moot issue.
I personally don't think that will be the outcome - I have more faith in the jury system than that. But as recent years have proven, anything is possible./