(01-14-2019 12:04 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-14-2019 11:17 AM)VA49er Wrote:  Lol, NOW it's getting silly. They really must be getting desperate not being able to find what they need.

From jug's link:
"...All of this highlights another inconvenient fact about Mueller’s case against Manafort: It is not about Russia, but about tax, bank, and lobbying violations stemming from his time in Ukraine. The Virginia judge who presided over Manafort’s first trial said the charges against him “manifestly don’t have anything to do with the [2016] campaign or with Russian collusion.” The collusion probe, the DC judge in Manafort’s second trial concurred, was “wholly irrelevant” to these charges.

The same could be argued about the entirety of Mueller’s indictments to date. Not a single Trump official has been accused of colluding with the Russian government or even of committing any crimes during the 2016 campaign. As The New York Times recently noted, “no public evidence has emerged showing that [Trump’s] campaign conspired with Russia.” The latest error-ridden hoopla generated by an inadvertent disclosure from Manafort’s attorneys does nothing to change that picture. If anything, it underscores that after two years there is still no strong case for Trump-Russia collusion—and that only shoddy evidentiary standards have misled its proponents into believing otherwise."

The above not withstanding, all this "russian agent" nonsense just provides further proof, IMO, that all this is is a witch hunt. They are looking for anything to appease their TDS. Anything. The "russian agent" nonsense is so silly only partisan hacks can possibly believe it. It reaks of a desperation already two years in the making and only serves to push folks like myself to vote for Trump in the next POTUS election.