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Originally Posted by kane
It is entirely possible that Manafort came into Mueller's cross hairs through this investigation and he was brought down for his past crimes AND he has nothing of any real value on Trump. It just seems like Mueller himself is taking a personal interest in this case unlike that other case recently where he came across info on someone and handed it over to another group to follow up on.
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Let me give you another possibility that it's not just about Manafort - BUT, not about Trump either.
How Tony Podesta's firm is connected to Russian-backed lobbying - Business Insider
"A big-shot lobbyist and Democratic donor has gotten caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation because of his firm's ties to the lobbying organization led by President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Tony Podesta, who stepped down from his position as the head of the lobbying firm the Podesta Group on Monday, reportedly worked with Manafort's lobbying firm that had sought to ease the Obama administration's tough stance toward Ukraine's Russian-backed government.
Tony Podesta is the brother of John Podesta, the former campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Manafort used the Podesta Group and Mercury as part of a two-pronged strategy he was pursuing as a consultant for the Ukrainian Party of Regions, which was the ruling party during the tenure of ousted Russian-backed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych."
The Podesta Group is DIRECTLY tied to Manafort.
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Originally Posted by kane
At this point, just about anything is possible. What I get annoyed with is when I see a lot of Republicans and Trump supporters saying things like, "There is no proof!" or "There is no evidence!" and they scream for an end to the investigation when the reality is nobody outside of the investigation really knows what they have or don't have.
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You are correct - we have not seen any evidence so screaming about it from either side like we know for sure is just for fun speculation.
You don't have the same feelings for anti-Trump people on this board that do the same thing when, as we have agreed, there is no evidence?