Racist, homophobic, misogynistic speech and actions. Apparently, it’s true: You can’t always get what you want.

Ooh oooh! While we are wishing on stars, I’d like to spend two weeks to a month on Maui, Ocean front, but anywhere will do. Summer is great, but I have a 15 year old trying to get a job, and I’d really love to come when the whales migrate close to the island.

Well, what the heck? If he can dream big and request adding things that help and ignoring things that can hurt, I think I should be able to do the same.

...A Crooked Fuck, Has Nothing To Do With Trump..

Mueller can nail him on these charges without mentioning Trump.

They’ll have to mention him for the D.C. trial, though.

Weird.

I don't think either are qualified

...when a petty grifter like Manafort has to distance himself for fear of invoking the wrath of the jury.

either

which seems pretty relevant to his taking money from pro-Russia Ukrainian politicians.

where his "past (illegal) dealings" lead up to his being a conduit for those changes in GOP platform policies and having direct involvement in hand-picking the VP candidate. He then "officially" exited the "public" scene (but continued behind the scenes to move the Russia ball forward).

Much easier to issue one, much less fallout for D Rump to pardon Manafort, for crimes that don't have mentions of T Rump all throughout the trial transcripts.

Trump only cares about Trump, so if he's not mentioned at the VA trial, he won't care a whit about Manafort.

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We see him going against his own lawyers' best advice, over and over again.

But he does have a team of lawyers and political hacks working to get him out of his own legal and political troubles. Every crooked underling like Manafort that goes down brings dRump closer to going down.

He didn't think up the idea of pardoning his way out of his troubles, the lawyers and political hacks around him did. He latched onto the idea, he gets to be king and rule by fiat, and all his troubles go away. He thinks.

And he is pretty easy to understand and predict, in my opinion. Every time he goes against his own lawyers and political spin advisors' advice, it's because the advice is getting in the way of him saying or doing something he wants to say/do.

His relationship with his lawyers and accountants and apprentices is -- he tells them he wants something done, and doesn't know how they're going to do it.

And if and when they get it done, he takes the money/power/credit, and he'll keep them employed. He wants to commit crimes and evade taxes, he doesn't care how they work to make that happen for him, as long as the dynamic stays the same. He thinks up something he wants (always illegal, crooked, nazi). He gets 'bright boys' to navigate the business, legal, tax systems for him. He gets what he wants. That's the level of thought and planning he's always put in to anything he's ever 'worked' on.

Manafort can't get pardons for his state criminal cases, but any hope for federal crimes pardons is weakened by how close the person getting the pardon is to the guy who tries to get away politically with issuing the pardon. Take that guy's name out of court transcripts, and the pardon looks a lot less politically damaging.

... altho there was no direct connection. Just to suck up to his 'base'.

No can do. But I will promise to have accurate thoughts when I mention republican misleader Dirty Donny, oops, I mean republican misleader Comrade Casino, or the deceitful and mendacious republican party, and their sicko traitorous relationship with the republican defendant.

You can trust me. I'm not a republican.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief