9 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

 I am not a lawyer. But, surely the Manafort trials - as a spin-off trial from the "get Trump colluding with Russia" witch-hunt and long running fallacy, should be null and void. It's a simple principle. The fruit of the poisoned tree. There was no collusion, the dodgy paid for Steele dossier set the poisoned ball rolling and everything it touched must now be pardoned. You don't head out on a duck hunt and return with rabbits.

 

 My advise to Trump is wait a few days until some other crisis engulfs the dems - maybe Ms Omar in another antisemitic row? - and get him pardoned and released. 

If a suspects computer is examined , perhaps for a fraud case , should the child pornography images found be ignored ?

You tie yourself up in knots trying to defend Manafort .

4 hours ago, bendejo said:

 

So when Fox News covers the trial they have something happy to play on tv.  That's what the story will be for them, and for those who don't get additional news from elsewhere.  Their viewers don't get to see the "hey! that's not what she said!" responses.  It keeps the witch hunt claim alive.

 

Kind of dumb (sort of the overall assessment these days) because all but the most stupid Americans (app. 35% of the population. aka the base) have figured out by now what a corrupt piece of orange-faced work he is, and DT sort of knows that.  He plays moronic moves to convince them stay on, and they rationalize for him (you've seen superb examples of that in here).  And they all know 35% constitutes a majority. 

 

 

While I agree with you on much of that, I still believe Manafort will face additional Federal Indictments for ‘conspiracy’ in what is being referred to as ‘Collusion with Russia’.

 

His meetings with Assange have not yet been presented in court and we know there is reference to his conspiracy within poorly redacted indictments.