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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30

      emptywheel Retweeted Andrew deGrandpre

      Before I lay out specific complaints with this article, here's my post from the weekend. A Warning about Hype Surrounding the Manafort Tax Evasion Trial https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/07/29/on-the-hype-surrounding-the-manafort-tax-evasion-trial/ …https://twitter.com/adegrandpre/status/1023943319850762240 …

      emptywheel added,

      Andrew deGrandpreVerified account @adegrandpre
      "Only he knows what he did." Paul Manafort's trial starts tomorrow. The Post's visuals teams put together this 18-min documentary and it is well worth your time. The spectacular rise and fall of Paul Manafort https://wapo.st/2mQ36bD 
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    2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30

      This WaPo article IS a good introduction in how Manafort's consulting ties together with his tax evasion. I like the way it pitches Manafort as the consummate lobbyist bc it universalizes sleazy influence-peddling. Good!

      1 reply 27 retweets 90 likes
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    3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30

      But in my opinion this inaccurate (it would be true of the DC case, but this isn't the DC case).pic.twitter.com/ibp9uT4qvS

      4 replies 11 retweets 37 likes
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    4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30

      Consider: the year 2016 appears 205 times in the Govt exhibit list: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.383106/gov.uscourts.vaed.383106.142.0_6.pdf …

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    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30

      While the tax returns that will be used as exhibits go back to 2011, 2016's taxes will be discussed at length (there are emails about that tax return prep).pic.twitter.com/bcd6yWOXjG

      2 replies 18 retweets 53 likes
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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30

      Perhaps most troubling, here's what appears in paragraphs 31 and 32 in a story that claims this trial is about work done years before Trump campaign.pic.twitter.com/rZxqP2vG71

      8:15 AM - 30 Jul 2018
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        2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30

          This is a story about how Manafort became so illiquid he had to break the law to maintain his lifestyle, but nevertheless worked for Trump for "free." The mortgage (¶31 of 33) is one explanation of how and why Manafort was willing to do it: to sustain more graft.

          3 replies 39 retweets 158 likes
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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30

          The other explanation -- one we may see in an eventual Manafort trial that will detail how he asked Russians for help winning the election -- is that he wasn't working for "free," he was expecting compensation from Russia.

          7 replies 45 retweets 166 likes
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        4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30

          emptywheel Retweeted emptywheel

          Update: I'm going to correct myself. In a filing submitted today, Mueller's team argues essentially what WaPo did that I complained about in this tweet. I'd rephrase it (it's not abt kind of work--that's DC--it's abt $$ made) https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.383106/gov.uscourts.vaed.383106.182.0_1.pdf …https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1023949015120007168 …

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          emptywheel @emptywheel
          But in my opinion this inaccurate (it would be true of the DC case, but this isn't the DC case). pic.twitter.com/ibp9uT4qvS
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        5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30

          But it's clear Mueller intends (assuming they win this fight over evidence) to describe at some length how much work Manafort did for Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs, to establish that they paid him $60M.

          3 replies 15 retweets 78 likes
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        2. Linda Harding‏ @Lindaisout1 Jul 30
          Replying to @emptywheel @norisgirl

          What is turning out to be important is the emolliments (sp?) trial

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30
          Replying to @Lindaisout1 @norisgirl

          I'd agree with that.

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        2. Bob Lynch‏ @LynchpinL Jul 30
          Replying to @emptywheel

          I think you are vastly underestimating the things that will come out in the Manafort trial. This is going to firmly establish his and trump’s mob ties.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 30
          Replying to @LynchpinL

          You may waste your time as is your wont. As I've laid out, short a guilty plea, I believe far more interesting developments will be happening outside the EDVA courthouse.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        4. Bob Lynch‏ @LynchpinL Jul 30
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Hope you’re not referring to the irrelevant Parkhomenko protests outside the court house. I’m happy being wrong on this one to be honest.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Linda Harding‏ @Lindaisout1 Jul 30
          Replying to @LynchpinL @emptywheel

          Gates will have plenty of info. Manafort couldn't flip because Russia would kill him

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Wouter van der Horst‏ @DerWouter Jul 30
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Drives me back to a 1980's Tom Barrack, ho facilitated purchase of Reagan AG Ed Meese's California home for a premium & then got Admin job.pic.twitter.com/IMM37l4vT2

          1 reply 2 retweets 1 like
        3. Wouter van der Horst‏ @DerWouter Jul 30
          Replying to @DerWouter @emptywheel

          Back in the 80's:https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/06/us/transaction-on-meese-home-described-at-hearing.html …

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Wouter van der Horst‏ @DerWouter Jul 30
          Replying to @DerWouter @emptywheel

          More Barrack:https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/10/08/mulling-future-watt-visits-ex-aides-ranch/953d7a01-f8e8-4d3e-9ad3-19b1e8f15246/?utm_term=.ff04d51f9ea6 …

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Wouter van der Horst‏ @DerWouter Jul 30
          Replying to @DerWouter @emptywheel

          Reagan personnel head E Pendleton James retelling:https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/e-pendleton-james-oral-history-director-office …

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        2. Cerise Holly 💥 🌊 ✊ 🤬 💪 🖕 💋 💃 ⭕️ 🍹 🥡‏ @ceriseholly Jul 30
          Replying to @emptywheel @MaryGeise

          Was he the one that was promised the seat of Secretary of Defense? I read after the election, some banker called DC and actually asked for a military report?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Linda Harding‏ @Lindaisout1 Jul 30
          Replying to @ceriseholly @emptywheel @MaryGeise

          It was Secretary of the Army. He actually called & said ready for work

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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