Trump Attacks Judge's 'Very Unfair' Decision To Jail Manafort Before Trial

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Tierney Sneed | June 15, 2018 2:22 pm

President Trump decried on Twitter the “tough sentence” handed down to Paul Manafort Friday — an apparent reference to a judge’s decision to put the former Trump campaign chairman in jail pending his trial.

Link to tweet

Manafort was not sentenced, as Trump suggested. Rather, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jacksona revoked Manafort’s bail after he was accused of tampering with witnesses in the case against him. Manafort was taken into custody immediately after the judge’s decision — a development some observers believe will increase the pressure on him to cooperate in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and of related matters.

Already, Mueller has secured the cooperation of Manafort’s top business deputy Rick Gates, who also served on Trump’s campaign and was associated with Trump’s inner circle well after Manafort left the campaign. Former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn is also cooperating with Mueller’s investigation after pleading guilty, while Trump’s longtime fixer Michael Cohen is reportedly considering cooperation with a separate federal investigation in Manhattan.

Trump’s tweet also comes after he’s issued a series of high-profile pardons, some for prosecutions he’s claimed were “unfair.” He used similar language when announcing his pardon of conservative activist Dinseh D’Souza, who pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance laws in 2014, as well as for Vice President Dick Cheney’s aide Scooter Libby, who was convicted of perjury in 2007 as part of special prosecutor investigation into the Valerie Plame leak.

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[muntrv]

1. No more unfair than separating children and putting them in tent cities.

[lagomorph777]

7. Kidnapping babies and throwing them in concentration camps.

[workinclasszero]

16. "Kidnapping babies and throwing them in concentration camps."

Brown babies only.


Shitler is good with that and so is his deplorable base!

[BlueJac]

2. What would Trump know about fair???

[forgotmylogin]

22. Yeah, I thought he liked lockin' people up!

[louis c]

3. Dorito Mussolini

[exboyfil]

4. Wait this is the guy who said it was ok to brutalize

suspects and received loud applause for that statement.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344364-trump-encourages-cops-to-be-rough-with-suspects

Trump suggested officers allow suspects' heads to hit the doors of police vehicles after they are placed under arrest.

"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddywagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, I said, ‘Please don't be too nice," Trump told an audience of law enforcement officers and crime victims’ families.


“Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over?” the president continued. “Like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody. Don’t hit their head? I said, ‘You can take the hand away, OK?’”

Trump’s comments drew laughter and applause from many of the officers standing behind him on stage.

[Freethinker65]

5. Trump got his law degree from Trump University

[lagomorph777]

6. Great strategy: tarnish "Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns"

I'm sure Republicans everywhere are thrilled with that.

[RandySF]

8. There's a pardon coming.

[beachbum bob]

9. Of course trump has issues with this, he often coherced, paid off or

Threaten any one who challenged him...he is no longer the big dog and still don't get it.

[procon]

10. So the best defense of Manafort that Trump could come up with was

1) Twenty years ago he used to work for some Republicans
2) He knows a lot of political people
3) He's not a member of the Mob


Weak and very sad.

[duforsure]

11. Coming from the guy who claims to be a law and order candidate

When it is clearly a serious violation of the law what he's done. Attacking any judge now is obstruction .

[Mr.Bill]

12. Thanks to Trump for clearing this up.

"Sentence" is what happens to guilty people.

[elleng]

13. 'Tough sentence!' He has NO IDEA

what he's talking about!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Keep confessing Donnie, you admit to so much more than you realize

[olddad56]

17. it is very unfair to the citizens for the Untied States that Trump isn't in prison for treason

[sueh]

29. Amen, olddad56! Your post deserves to be K & R'd a thousand times!

[Gothmog]

18. Trump is an idiot

Link to tweet

[Docreed2003]

26. That truth needs to be spread far and wide!!!

[MiniMe]

19. Dear Donald, Manafort violated the terms of his probation, that is why he is in the slammer

Perhaps he shouldn't have talked to witnesses about their testimony. No sympathy, he did it to himself

[Turbineguy]

20. It's very unfair

that anybody should be accountable for crimes?

[Stuart G]

21. Manafort is not the "head of the mob"...Trump is.!!!! nt

[Grassy Knoll]

23. Lol, Lovin The " What-About-ISM " ...

...Disaster Don Can't Help It...

[truthisfreedom]

24. Predictable straw man bullshit. There is no sentence.

He attacks things that don’t exist because attacking the truth makes him look like a loser.

Cult leader.

[Chemisse]

25. Sad that nobody ever told little Donny that life isn't fair.

Of course he never actually wants things to be fair; he means weighted to benefit him.

[C_U_L8R]

27. Just wait for your turn, Trump

[Turbineguy]

28. The Judge had difficulty with the decision.

This should ease her mind and let her know she was correct.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Boohoo