Prison Bars Haven’t Kept Manafort And Giuliani Apart

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Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has kept up a steady flow of communication with the imprisoned Paul Manafort through the former Trump campaign chairman’s lawyer, seeking to further the rightwing talking point that Ukrainians interfered in 2016 to help Hillary Clinton.

A happy byproduct of this narrative would be muddying the charges against Manafort.

Giuliani told the Washington Post that their conversations have centered around the infamous ledger uncovered by the Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which included a payment to Manafort that touched off his legal problems.

Giuliani is trying to reshape investigations into Manafort as a feature of a Ukrainian attempt to derail the Trump campaign in favor for Clinton’s. This has long been a convenient digression for Trump allies trying to shift attention off of Russia’s meddling in the election on his behalf.

According to a New York Review of Books report, this is how the whole smear campaign against Joe and Hunter Biden started in the first place: with President Donald Trump and Giuliani molding a pretense for a Manafort pardon.

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  1. Does anyone know if the black ledger payment was part of any criminal prosecution of Manafort?

  2. "…with President Donald Trump and Giuliani molding a pretense for a Manafort pardon."

    I fail to see Trump feels any obligation to provide rational grounds or reasoned support for his decisions. If he wants to pardon Manafort he’d just do it, contrary advice be damned.

  3. Manafort: “Will you wait for me, my little honeybear?”

    Giuliani: “Always, sugarplum. And I’ll stay faithful, too!”

  4. Avatar for civik civik says:

    He’s already said he prefers people who weren’t captured.

  5. How does this work? Are prisoners allowed unlimited stream of visitors and phone calls? I thoguht there were limits on this…Does Giuliani personally go to the pen to visit? Or is this yet another ‘I’m his lawyer’ scam? I thought prison meant hard time, not R and R time to chat with the talking heads…

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