As both Manafort's lawyer and the prosecuting judge made clear, none of the charges were related to "Russia collusion", to Trump, or to the Trump campaaign.
Again, Manafort was Trump's campaign manager for about 40 days, and was only part of the Trump campaign for about 100 days. Again, Manafort was aggressively prosecuted for a case initally closed by the FBI 13 years prior, and closed because they deemed it unprosecutable for a lack of evidence. THE ONLY reason this case was re-opened was for vindictive prosecution of a Trump official, to shake down Manafort and bankrupt him (a wealthy man up till then) with legal fees, so that at some point he could no longer fight and was forced to seek a deal. That is the pattern with EVERY Trump official in this Stalinist proceeding. It is to intimidate anyone who would consider serving under Trump going forward, and punishment for helping Trump win the election. Disguised as a legal investigation. That is its true purpose.
As contrasted with the Hillary Clinton investigation, where (in sharp contrast to how overzealously they prosecuted Trump officials) the same FBI,DOJ and Mueller investigators bent over backward to destroy evidence, allow evidence to be destroyed, avoid interviews that would create similar perjury traps for Hillary officials, and handed out immunity for no logical reason so they could not be leveraged as witnesses later.
The weaponization of law by Hillary's praetorian guard against their political opposition, disguised as a legal proceeding.
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
