Would you let Paul Manafort walk if he has testimony that can bring down the Trump crime family.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Would you let Paul Manafort walk if he has testimony that can bring down the Trump crime family and end the Trump presidency ?

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[msongs]

1. only after they are convicted imprisoned and cannot be pardoned. nt

[sunonmars]

2. I'd let him walk after they were convicted then arrest him again on new charges right outside.

[Freethinker65]

3. No. But I might be easily persuaded to reduce his sentence.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Sammy The Bull Gravano basically got time served, four years, for giving up John Gotti.

And he admitted to killing nineteen people.

Using that as a measure letting Manafort walk if he gives up the entire Trump crime family seems like justice, albeit rough justice.

We can thrown in that he has to pay restitution for the taxes he evaded.

[trof]

10. There ya go.

[empedocles]

5. Mueller let sammy the bull walk [12 murder convictions]

into a witness protection program, to get gotti

[empedocles]

6. to get most of the trump crime family

they might have to flip cohen

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Please see the post above you.

[JI7]

7. Yes. But it would haveto really break up all or major part of their crime

Org.

[meadowlander]

9. Yes if you throw in all the complicit GOP leadership, donors and media as well.

I would let Manafort walk to get Trump, his kids, Pence, Sessions, Hannity, the Mercer Family, Erik Prince, Roger Stone, McConnell, Ryan, Nunes and anyone in the RNC who knew what was happening, turned a blind eye and hasn't already started cooperating.

Just Trump is not enough. The problem we're facing isn't Trump. It's that Republican establishment propping him up which needs to be rooted out and the earth salted to stop them springing up again.

[VMA131Marine]

11. I wouldn't let him walk, not after dragging things out this far

But, if he cooperates now, he gets a sentence that doesn't result in him dying in prison.

[treestar]

12. No hesitation!

If it brings down the Whole family.

[jrandom421]

13. I'd let him off on the federal charges

But I'd let the State of Virginia and New York have their day in court with him.

[Hekate]

14. I don't believe it works like that

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. Google "Mueller Sammy The Bull"

[ProudLib72]

16. The ends justify the means?

That is not the way the justice system is supposed to work. Either everyone plays by the same rules or there is no confidence in our justice system.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. Criminals always get reduced sentences for cooperating with the authorities.

It is not difficult to imagine the tortured debate within Mueller’s mind as he weighed the decision. He could allow Sammy, a man who had admittedly killed 19 men, to play for Uncle Sam’s team. Or he could go into the Gotti trial knowing that Teflon Don—the swaggering crime boss who had walked away from three prior trials—could once again get away with murder. Pulling him in one direction was a lifetime of rectitude: a lofty moral code passed on by his education at St. Paul’s School, Princeton University, and the Marine Corps. And doubtlessly pulling him in another direction was a fair share of ambition. He’d be the man who brought down John Gotti, and the world would unquestionably be a better place for it.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/how-scared-should-trump-be-of-mueller-ask-john-gotti-or-sammy-the-bull

An eighteen year old kid with no priors slinging rocks is picked up by the police. The penalties for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute range up to fifteen years in prison. He gives up the dealer who sold him the rocks. He gets probation. Is that justice? Without cooperating witnesses, i.e. snitches and rats lots of bad guys would be walking the streets.

What kind of deals do you think Flynn or Papadopoulos got ? Did you object to those deals ?

If Manafort's testimony led to the removal of Trump from office and his crime family facing charges I would adopt him.

[ProudLib72]

19. The way you phrased the OP implied that he would not serve time at all

Papa is fool. Flynn is dangerous but an idiot. Manafort is much, much worse. He was the Russia connection. In my mind, he is a bigger fish than the Rump. So what worries me is that he would be given a reduced sentence and be able to go back to wheeling and dealing with Putin in no time at all. Then #47 would be Kanye!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. Manafort had no power prior to his arrest. Trump is the most powerful man in the world.

Trump is the most powerful man in the world and is wreaking havoc on our nation and its people. I almost shed a tear writing that.

[ProudLib72]

21. I agree with you on that. The Rump is wrecking the world

But getting rid of him at the cost of letting one of his biggest enablers go perpetuates the cycle. That is, unless the plea bargain called for constant surveillance and not being able to leave the country. I might go for that.

[Lil Missy]

18. depends on what his crimes are. Then possibly a reduced sentence.