Ringside Report’s Guide To The Paul Manafort Trial

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By Jason J.G. Gamble

The first trial from Mueller’s special council has begun. Paul Manafort served as the campaign manager for Donald Trump from March to August 2016. This a time period that is also being examined for potential collusion and it is important to understand a few key facts. Manafort is accused of more than $30 million dollars he received from a Pro-Russian political party in the Ukraine between 2006 and 2015. He is also accused of witness tampering to cover his tracks. He lied numerous times about his income in order to receive more than $13 million dollars in loans. So how does this fit in with the concerns about Russian collusions? Manafort was part of the meeting with a Russian lawyer along with Jared Kushner and Donald Trump, JR.

It was Trump. JR. that admitted that the only purpose of the meeting was to determine if they could find inside information on Hilary Clinton. For some this is a textbook definition of collusion with a foreign country. Manafort is currently charged with 18 counts in U.S. District Court in Alexandria V.A. The maximum sentence he could receive is 270 years, the false tax returns alone is a 15 year sentence.

He is accused of having laundered more than $30 million dollars between 2008 and 2014 including 6.5 million in New York Real Estate, 1.3 million on a Florida home, and more than $850,000 on clothing. There is a potential that current and former members of the Trump administration could be called to testify in the trial. It is not clear whether or not Trump will be called to testify but in the past 24 hours both Trump and his lawyer Rudy Guiliani have changed their rhetoric from “there was no collusion” to “collusion is not a crime.”

New information always comes to light when trials begin. Two things are certain. It has been confirmed without a doubt that Paul Manafort has ties to Russia and it is confirmed that Russians did interfere with the U.S. election. Is it a coincidence or was there collusion?

Hopefully we will find the truth very soon.

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