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Analysis: If anyone knows about collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, it's Paul Manafort. That may explain the prosecutors' interest in a plea deal.
WASHINGTON — The decision by President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman to admit his guilt and cooperate with prosecutors could be a game-changer for special counsel Robert Mueller, while dramatically ratcheting up the pressure on the president.
It wasn’t only Trump critics who were offering that assessment of Paul Manafort's stunning guilty plea Friday, but also some of his most ardent supporters.
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, who has defended Trump so vigorously he lost friends in his liberal summer enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, acknowledged on MSNBC that the Manafort plea was a “big win” and a “big get” for the special counsel investigating Russia’s 2016 election interference.
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Manafort has had close ties to the Russians & their big money for years. He was in the Trump campaign long enough to know of the scheming that went on from the start. And now he's pledged years in the slammer in return for his total cooperation: ratting out Trump & his crime family.
Analysis: If anyone knows about collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, it's Paul Manafort. That may explain the prosecutors' interest in a plea deal.
WASHINGTON — The decision by President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman to admit his guilt and cooperate with prosecutors could be a game-changer for special counsel Robert Mueller, while dramatically ratcheting up the pressure on the president.
It wasn’t only Trump critics who were offering that assessment of Paul Manafort's stunning guilty plea Friday, but also some of his most ardent supporters.
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, who has defended Trump so vigorously he lost friends in his liberal summer enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, acknowledged on MSNBC that the Manafort plea was a “big win” and a “big get” for the special counsel investigating Russia’s 2016 election interference.
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Manafort has had close ties to the Russians & their big money for years. He was in the Trump campaign long enough to know of the scheming that went on from the start. And now he's pledged years in the slammer in return for his total cooperation: ratting out Trump & his crime family.