The Manafort Plea Is No Big Deal

RUSH: CNN has abandoned coverage of Hurricane Florence in order to cover the Manafort plea deal with Robert Mueller. They are so eager to hear that Manafort finally sold Trump out that they have left coverage of the hurricane! Do you realize this is akin to them leaving coverage of the search for the Malaysian jet? They have abandoned coverage and are waiting for details on the Manafort plea deal.

I’m gonna be able, with the assist of several legal beagles that I know, to explain the Manafort plea deal to you. It’s not that big a deal. Don’t get all hepped up about it.

What they have got themselves convinced of is that Manafort has the smoking gun that will allow Mueller to finally indict Trump for stealing the election with Putin, that Manafort’s known all along and that Mueller has known that Manafort has known all along. That’s why Mueller was bravely and courageously chasing Manafort and hunting him down and raiding his home at 6 a.m.

He was doing everything he could to intimidate him into flipping on Trump because Manafort knows. So that is the premise that guides their coverage of the announced plea deal between Manafort and Mueller. Never mind that whatever Mueller is looking at Manafort for happened two years before Trump even ran for president. Manafort was barely working for Trump for a hundred days, but the things that Mueller is investigating Manafort for happened long before Trump’s presidential campaign.

Now, in the real world, in the real world of legalisms and the law, the Manafort plea deal is probably much ado about nothing because they got him on bank fraud in the trial in the Eastern District of Virginia. And they already had 80 years of potential jail time because of his convictions in that trial.

Manafort’s partner, Rick Gates, has been cooperating for seven months. If Manafort had anything on Trump, Gates would already have told Mueller about it. This is the thing that the media’s gonna miss. They’re gonna miss it on purpose because they’re engaged in full-fledged hope. They hope that this plea deal means that Manafort’s finally decided to flip on Trump.

I’m telling you right now, Rick Gates, Manafort’s partner has already flipped. He flipped seven months ago. He’s been spilling whatever he’s got to Mueller for seven months, and if in those seven months Rick Gates had anything to tell Mueller about Manafort and Trump, then Gates would already have told Mueller about it, and we would have already known about it because CNN could not stop talking about it.

Those indictments do not allege collusion with Trump. They also seem to discount the possibility. It was those indictments, don’t forget, that Rod Rosenstein, when announcing the indictments, made a statement. He said nothing in these indictments alleges that a single election’s outcome was changed or affected. Nothing in these indictments alleges that a single vote was changed. Nothing in these indictments suggests an American citizen broke the law.

Those are the indictments that Mueller handed down after Gates spilled his guts after he flipped on his partner, Mueller. So Mueller files indictments against Russians that not only don’t allege collusion, the allegations in the indictments do not allege that the Russians worked with Trump. In fact, it mentions that the Russians went out of their way to conceal what they were doing and that some of their operations were actually against Trump.

Now, the media has missed this because they don’t want to hear that. They don’t want to hear the Russians were working against Trump.

By the way, this is consistent with what Manafort’s legal team is telling the press. Manafort’s lawyers are saying that Manafort’s got nothing on Trump, that there was no collusion.

Now, what I just told you is the truth. You will not see this, I predict you will not see anything, very little of what I’ve just told you in the Drive-By Media. It’s gonna be the exact opposite; it’s gonna be speculation; it’s gonna be hope. “What does Manafort have on Trump? What has Manafort told Mueller?” We’re gonna have panel discussions speculating on what Mueller might have learned from Manafort about Trump colluding with Russians. It’s not about that in any way, shape, manner, or form. Just listen to Manafort’s lawyers. They’re telling the media that this plea deal has zip, zero, nada to do with Donald Trump.

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