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Paul Manafort just finished saying: "I don't know what I was thinking, your honor, but now that you have shown me so clearly and intelligently, I feel just terrible. . . . I mean, defrauding banks and my country, tax evasion, and lying under oath. . . Somehow I just overlooked some things. . . . I guess I was busy. . . . But now, I'm sure am sorry! . . . You can take that to the bank!"
malaise
(268,931 posts)No collusion
MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)"I got friends in high places you know."
underpants
(182,772 posts)Got any pics of them near water?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)call it the John Mitchell Defense. Think about it.
Johonny
(20,833 posts)back in the Ukraine in part due to my working for a monster of a human being, and I grant you, I stole those people's money too and lived like a king there, and I grant you my best friends in my 20s were Roger Stone and Lee Atwater in which my basic function as a human in society at that time with my friends help was to trick society through race baiting, and cons to get them to vote for people that did not have their best interest at heart, and I grant that I'm so horrible that I stole money from the Russian mob. I mean you can't even trust me with money from people who got that money doing things indescribable but very disgusting, And I'll give you that when given the chance to own up to all this, I basically lied not once but three separate times to the people offering me a plea deal. What I'm saying if you ignore all that, I think you'll find I should not be separated from my family in the same way the Russian mob separates people's fingers from their hand. ... er ... so I'm told. Because, otherwise, when you ignore all that and focus on the blatant bank fraud that I did as a side project because I'm clearly insane and think I'm above all laws, if you look passed all that, I'm basically leading a blameless life. Totally blameless. Did I mention there was no collusion. I just gave polling numbers to the KGB. I gave them polling numbers, that's not collusion. That's blameless. Totally blameless. Now let me get back in my wheel chair that I suddenly just started needing, and whimper in my frail old age. Thank you your honor, but really you should thank me. Thank me for being in this court room today.
P.S. never extradite me back to the Ukraine. Please, never do that.