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Everyone in my office for one and secondly, most of the people on DP who actually know what skepticism is.
The amount of failed attempts to even bruise Trump before and after the election. Are going to outweigh whatever achievements they can eek out for a long time.
Sounds like you and people you talk to are viewing the unfolding developments through a skewed lens and all
the lying makes little to no impression on any of you....interesting. Why then are Trump and his pals reduced to lying like would be
expected of obstructors of justice? Rather unusual to be charged with lying in a proffer meeting, look it up, post another
example of someone doing that in a plea deal negotiation!
https://www.courthousenews.com/after-ex-trump-staffers-guilty-plea-new-charges-tossed/
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After Ex-Trump Staffer’s Guilty Plea, New Charges Tossed
February 27, 2018 BRITAIN EAKIN FacebookTwitterGoogle+Email
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) – A federal judge nixed 22 tax and bank-fraud charges Tuesday against the latest former Trump campaign official to plead guilty as part of the investigation of Russia’s influence on the 2016 presidential election.
Rick Gates agreed just this past Friday to plead guilty to lying to the FBI and conspiracy to defraud the United States, but Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team had brought the superseding charges against him and co-defendant Paul Manafort just one day earlier in Virginia’s Eastern District.
Longtime business associates, Gates and Manafort were arrested last year as part of a 12-count indictment that was unsealed on Oct. 30.
As part of his plea Friday, 45-year-old Gates admitted that he lied to the FBI during a Feb. 1, 2018, proffer session when agents asked him about Manafort’s meeting on March 19, 2013, with a lobbyist and a member of Congress.
Though Gates told FBI agents that Manafort told him no discussions of Ukraine took place at that meeting, Gates acknowledged last week that had in fact worked with Manafort on a report for Ukrainian leadership memorializing the pertinent Ukraine discussions from the meeting.
On the same day Gates lied to the FBI, three of his attorneys sought permission to withdraw from the case....
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