Sorry man, this is just the beginning.
And OMG! It is not just Racketeering stuff: Flynn told the Russians the Trump Administration was opposed to Obama’s position on Egypt's UN proposal regarding Israeli settlements and ask Russia vote cast their UN vote to meet Trump’s wish; and they did. Flynn also asked Russia not to respond to Obama’s sanctions, regarding their interference with our elections and Russia complied. And Papadopoulos pled guilty to lying about not setting up a meet between Russian and Trump Camp.
Why did Russia comply? Easy answer. The main tradecraft of Russian spies is to do anything to get you to do something wrong; once you screw up; they will then hold that over you to get you to do more and more and more bad stuff. After each bad thing, they got their hooks deeper in and after, oh let’s say 1 year, you become a completely compromised Russian asset. Our government has never been so compromised by a foreign power. There is no telling what have have done or not done at Russia’s wish. It’s disgusting!
This is a text book RICO prosecution [right or wrong]. The only difference being this legal Team is the most expert ever assembled and has full access to the full gamut of the US’s intelligence capabilities; our Spyhunters are the most capable and loyal Patriots in the world. Plus, other intelligence agencies of friendly nations or those that hate Trump will pass their intel that our guys, if we did not possess the assets to collect it. Mueller already knows 90% of what occurred. What we’re witnessing today is the Team converting what’s known into admissible evidence.
Manafort and Gates didn’t talk. You got racketeering on them, so you charge them and begin the process of seizing/freezing their assets and bankrupting them with legal fees. Their role with Russia was intentionally left out of their indictments, it will be added later; assuming they don’t change their position on cooperation.
This is done for several reasons: (1) gives Trump a false sense of safety; (2) charges are filed that can be removed to state court so Trump cant pardon; (3) you send a message to the next guys [“Co-operate or we are going to pound you in the ground”]; (4) ya got secretaries, drivers, friends, wives, kids, business associates, lawyers, etc of the targets that are under scrutiny of the full breadth and weight of US surveillance capabilities, so sometimes ya hit the piñata and see how much candy falls; and so forth.
The Manafort raid was unusual in that typically the Feds show up at 5-6am bust through the door announcing their presence or will wait to you exit the home [Its safest way to do it]. But, Manafort didn’t know they were in the house until they burst into his office at midnight. This is only done when someone is in the process of destroying evidence or doing something for which they needed to be caught in the act. This means they had full eyes and ears INSIDE Manafort’s house, which means a judge allowed the surveillance. Manafort is 100% toast!
When the first 3 sealed indictments were filed, no one knew who they were, but numbers are issues sequentially. Those three ended up being Manafort, Gates and Papadopoulos. 2 weeks ago 4 more sealed indictments were filed, the first is Flynn. Wonder who the other 3 are: Page, Pence, Kushner and/or Eric?
Originally Posted by: Barfarn