Mueller Time: After Gates guilty plea, a NEW Manafort indictment
It’s Friday just before 5pmEST, and we’ve just learned that Bob Mueller’s day was not over:
Breaking at 4:43pm: Mueller filing NEW charges against Paul Manafort, connected to secret payments to former European politicians.
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) February 23, 2018
According to Nicole Wallace on MSNBC, the charges involve Manafort wiring money to European politicians in an effort to get them to support Russian-backed Ukranian politicians and policies.
Make no mistake: Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team are putting pressure on Mueller to flip on someone. Trump? Maybe Pence? (Manafort did, after all, have a lot to do with the choice of Trump’s running mate.) Maybe BOTH?
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.