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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Comical Notion That Pardoning Manafort Will "Require Him To Testify" or "Face State Charges" [View all]
If Manafort is pardoned, he is going to do one thing, and one thing only.
He will get picked up from the lock-up, he will get into a car, he will be taken to the airport, he will get on a private plane, and that plane is going direct to Russia.
From there, he will move in to his new digs on the Black Sea.
And that will be the end of that.
All this nonsense about "he'll have to testify" or "he can be indicted by a state" just cracks me up.
Do you think for ONE RED HOT SECOND that he's going to stick around for any of that?
Trump will spring him, and he will get out of the US.
Do you see Edward Snowden being "forced to testify" about anything in a US court?
Do you see Roman Polanski getting hauled back to California to face state charges?
Manafort has lived and worked abroad for years. There's nothing keeping him nailed down in this country. If you think he's going to get pardoned, walk out, and then stick around in the US to see what happens next, then dream on.
If he gets a pardon, he's leaving the country, and he's not coming back for any other legal proceedings whatsoever.
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The Comical Notion That Pardoning Manafort Will "Require Him To Testify" or "Face State Charges" [View all]
jberryhill
Jun 2018
OP
I still think the Russians would be more likely to whack him than welcome him.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2018
#29
and Mueller doesn't have a Material Witness Warrant ready before he exits jail?
grantcart
Jun 2018
#2
People are just looking for any reason at all to hope for orange assface's conviction.
lark
Jun 2018
#3
There seem to be a near endless list of charges that Manafort COULD be charged with beyond those
hlthe2b
Jun 2018
#6
It's called a Material Witness Warrant. Mueller could hold him even of he gets a pardon
grantcart
Jun 2018
#30
You're spot on and the judge in today's revocation of bond came to the same conclusion
PSPS
Jun 2018
#22
I don't think Trump will spring him. There are probably state banking charges that could be filed.
Demsrule86
Jun 2018
#25
You mean like Flynn, Gates, Cohen and Papadopoulos have all fled the Country?
brooklynite
Jun 2018
#34