Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence.

[pnwmom]

Despite what Ken Delanian was implying (in his first breathless reports), the fact that the Manafort sentencing agreement lacks evidence about Trump/Russian collusion doesn't mean there wasn't any.

All it means is that such evidence is not included in this particular document. But it didn't need to be. This is a sentencing document and all it had to do was justify Manafort's sentence.

[benld74]

1. Twitter is raking him over the coals

[Hekate]

2. KnR

[manor321]

3. Seth

The idea that we'd pretend these three possibilities are *equally possible* when we know Manafort secretly offered in-kind value to the Kremlin during the campaign—offered it to both Kilimnik (GRU) and Deripaska (Kremlin)—in exchange for "getting whole" is *really bad journalism*

Link to tweet

[pnwmom]

4. Good post. Thanks!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Not bad journalism. It's lack of journalism; it's PROPAGANDA to keep tRumpanzees shuffling along. nt