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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRudy Giuliani admits Trump's lawyers have a confidential backchannel to Paul Manafort
Rudy Giuliani has admitted that President Donald Trumps legal team has a backchannel to communicate with Paul Manafort, the convicted felon who also previously served as Trumps campaign chairman in 2016.
In an interview with Politico, Giuliani said that Trumps legal team and Manaforts have a joint defense agreement that allows them to share confidential information with one another.
The publication speculates that Manafort is holding out for a pardon from Trump, and it suggests that seeking a plea deal that doesnt include any promise of cooperation with Mueller might be the safest way to ensure that he gets one.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/rudy-giuliani-admits-trumps-lawyers-confidential-backchannel-paul-manafort/
Stallion
(6,473 posts)....just as it ended with Gates and others when they started cooperating with Mueller
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)According to Rachel Maddow, Trump has joint defense agreements with 37 people. (She got it from Woodword's book.) Wow. That's a nice way to make sure everyone tells the same lie. No wonder Trump is so afraid of people flipping. Anyone who flips will point out exactly what the lies are and how the lies have been coordinated.
Jarqui
(10,110 posts)Just a question of how soon.
The Woodward book is also probably much more helpful to Mueller than Wolff's or Omarosa's book because of it's attention to corroborating timelines and facts.
If Trump has 37 legal coop agreements, Mueller probably has about 370 informants. A number of those who spoke with Woodward would be willing to speak with Mueller.
I am still among the belief that we the people will have to do the heavy lifting in removing this disgraceful #IPOTUS.
We have crossed over into the mythical or not 60-days-before-an-election "ban" on disclosure for a Special Counsel to avoid influencing the outcome of the vote. That would push back any action by Mueller well into November. Is there also a grace period for the Holidays?!
Part of me thinks that Mueller's job is so complex, so deep, and so involved that he may well be only at the 50%-60% mark now, if that. That would indicate that if we elect a Democratic House (and hopefully Senate), we'll probably get him first, assuming we have enough already to impeach him or force his resignation. Also, that assumes that the idiot doesn't fire himself first with this week's outrages front and center.
Another theory is that Mueller doesn't quite have what we would all like to see him have yet.
Lastly, even if he fells the moron-in-chief definitively, at the root, would any republican in the House or Senate hear the tree fall?
Manafort, as we all know, is a weasel of the lowest order. The Ghoul says that the West Wing is in touch with him. Whether we believe the mentally-challenged Ghoul or not, Manafort will play every angle he can before he rats out the #IPOTUS.
MiniMe
(21,676 posts)Jarqui
(10,110 posts)Maybe what is at stake is his wife and kids.
If he doesn't rat out Trump, Putin doesn't have them poisoned.
Maybe Mueller has proposed a witness protection program that Trump can't find out about ... and a way to have them have access to some of his money
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)ffr
(22,647 posts)I wonder.