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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Atlantic: Manafort's fate is sealed
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/paul-manafort-stares-into-the-abyss/554201/no_hypocrisy
(46,104 posts)mucifer
(23,542 posts)To live with the constant threat of personal peril requires a healthy dose of denial. Manafort behaves as if he believes everything will eventually fall in his favor, that problems will inevitably resolve themselves. When the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska accused him of stealing $20 million in 2011, Manafort simply didnt respond to the aluminum magnates calls or emails for several years, according to a lawsuit filed by Deripaska earlier this year. Instead of trying to assuage Deripaska, who carries such a fierce reputation that the U.S. has denied him a visa, Manafort acted as if his pursuer didnt exist. It wasnt an entirely foolish bet. When Manafort eventually joined up with the Trump in 2016, he sent emails to Deripaska via an emissary promising him privileged access to the campaign, perhaps providing a tidy moment to settle their old differences. (Deripaska denies having seen the emails and denies any recent contact with Manafort.)
Much more in the article.
So it seems he's a spoiled rich guy who gets what he want's more than he's afraid of being poisoned.
womanofthehills
(8,706 posts)Check out the podcast!!!!
Cha
(297,220 posts)he didn't.
Thanks for the snip, mucifer
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,083 posts)The Russian mobsters won't be able to take him out there.
mucifer
(23,542 posts)Motownman78
(491 posts)Have a friend doing 90 months in Talahassee. She has a jo, gets to play softball daily, smoke cigarettes, ect. Not too bad by my standards.
mucifer
(23,542 posts)Bernie Madoff is.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)and they have a lot of time on their hands. He's probably safer outside of prision.
lindysalsagal
(20,684 posts)
Theres one primary reason that Manafort appears so unwilling to reconcile himself with the unimpeachable reality. For his entire career, he has taken audacious risks and managed to get away with them. His friends describe him as wired to take chances that most rational creatures would avoid. Such is the temperament that leads a person to allegedly launder millions, in a long series of batches, each one a fresh opportunity to get busted by the feds. And it has led him to spend much of his career working on behalf of murderous autocrats, capricious dictators and vengeful oligarchs, like the Angolan insurgent Jonas Savimbi and the Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos. Manafort not only had the skills to bend these characters to his will; he seemingly took pleasure in the challenge of taming and mastering dangerous men. (Trump was the rare strongman he couldnt quite master.)
They were in the mud together for yearsand when their alleged misdeeds were finally exposed by Mueller, Manafort could reasonably have convinced himself that Gates would remain loyal to the end. But now Gates has peeled away from his father figure, and that couldnt be any worse for Manafort.
Whatever blanks remain in Muellers narrative, Gates can fill them. If there are any weaknesses in the existing evidence, Gates can bolster them. With their intimate history and Gatess long immersion in the crevices of Manaforts finances and political dealings, hes pure prosecutorial gold. With the next turns of the Muellers screw, Manafort will be forced into an ultimate reckoning with all the witnesses, all the evidence, all the sentencing guidelines arrayed against him, a belated, harsh reunion with reality.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Many links here about this, including the OP.
Details at the Bloomberg site
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Unless he commits suicide -- which apparently, he has threatened to do on at least one occasion.
Hekate
(90,683 posts)Azathoth
(4,608 posts)From everything I've seen, the only reason Trump hasn't already fired Mueller and issued pardons to everyone is because his staff have been lying to him and telling him it's all on the verge of blowing over. Once the fantasy bubble he's in pops, all bets are off.
I'm convinced that Manafort and everyone else will be pardoned the day Jared is indicted.