CNN reports that Manafort's cooperation includes matters including the 2016 Russian interference.

[kpete]

@CNN
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department, including in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election https://cnn.it/2NaMzPc

Link to tweet

Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department, including in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Manafort pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against the US and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice due to attempts to tamper with witnesses, according to a court filing Friday.
Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told the judge Manafort's plea agreement is a "cooperation agreement," and other charges will be dropped at sentencing at "or at the agreement of successful cooperation."

Manafort had proffered information to the government already, Weissmann said in court.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/politics/paul-manafort-guilty-plea/index.html?utm_content=2018-09-14T16%3A13%3A30&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social

[Botany]

1. "Manafort's cooperation includes matters including the 2016 Russian interference."

I love a nice headline like that one.

[BootinUp]

2. Maybe I should hit Vegas this weekend

Feels like Lady Luck is around.

[HopeAgain]

3. Per NPR, it does not include the Russia Investigation

NPR says:

"At the same time, Manafort's cooperation agreement does not include matters involving the Trump campaign, according to one person familiar with the case."

Between CNN and NPR, I tend to trust NPR more...

[bearsfootball516]

10. Well, that is unfortunate.

[peekaloo]

11. I just heard the same thing. nt

[manor321]

4. The article does not say that

That is a misinterpretation of CNN's article, which just says he's cooperating with the Mueller investigation. The article even says:

The scope of the cooperation was not immediately clear.

[kpete]

12. CNN

Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department, including in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/politics/paul-manafort-guilty-plea/index.html?utm_content=2018-09-14T16%3A13%3A30&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Does this mean he is going full whistle-blower against the traitors?

[Cartoonist]

6. The Freep take

You'd think they would be a little bit apprehensive, but no. They don't think he has anything on their dear leader. They think any testimony by Manafort will be written by Mueller.

[unblock]

9. Amazing what they'll believe about a white right-winger.

No matter the convictions or the evidence in this case, they're convinced not only that he's the inncocent victim of a malicious prosecutor, but they also firmly believe that no black man has *ever* been railroaded into an unjust plea deal by a malicious prosecutor....

*that* never happens, but the white guy with the mountain of evidence against him? Oh, yeah, *that* guy was railroaded....

[RockRaven]

7. Trump purposely surrounds himself with people he believes can't afford to turn on him...

Manafort should wake him up to the fact that there are no certainties in that arena. Manafort still had plenty to lose by turning including a) getting whacked by Russians and b) assuring that Trump will not pardon him, and still he turned because Mueller's team developed sufficient leverage.

Trump probably ought to re-evaluate what he believes about the notion that Jared will never turn on him. I think, of Trump's innermost circle, he's next most likely to pull the rip-cord when the going gets tough.

[Freethinker65]

8. I beg your pardon?

No wonder Trump and the GOP are frantically stacking the courts, selling off public resources, dismantling social programs, decimating the EPA/DoEducation/HUD/office of Consumer Protection, passing corporate tax cuts and tax cuts to the wealthy, making it more difficult to vote, denying access to affordable healthcare (including reproductive healthcare and covering pre-existing conditions), etc. They know their window of opportunity may soon be coming to an end. They will continue to loot until the bitter end.