The Paul Manafort indictment is much ado about nothing . . . except
as a vehicle to squeeze Manafort, which is special counsel Robert
Mueller’s objective — as we have been arguing for three months (see
here, here, and here).
Do not be fooled by the “Conspiracy against the United States” heading
on Count One (page 23 of the indictment). This case has nothing to do
with what Democrats and the media call “the attack on our democracy”
(i.e., the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 election, supposedly in
“collusion” with the Trump campaign). Essentially, Manafort and his
associate, Richard W. Gates, are charged with (a) conspiring to conceal
from the U.S. government about $75 million they made as unregistered
foreign agents for Ukraine, years before the 2016 election (mainly, from
2006 through 2014), and (b) a money-laundering conspiracy.
There are twelve counts in all, but those are the two major allegations.
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