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Federal Judge in the Manafort Case Says Special Counsel is Lying and is Targeting Trump

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FILE – In this April 21, 2016 file photo, attorney and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, right, arrives for a court hearing at the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco. Mueller has been overseeing settlement talks with Volkswagen, the U.S. government and private lawyers. Mueller is being honored with an award from West Point. The U.S. Military Academy’s Association of Graduates will present the Thayer Award to Mueller on Thursday evening, Oct. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Paul Manafort’s defense team has been carrying out a full-court press attacking the authority of the special counsel to investigate or prosecute him for bank fraud charges that go back over a decade. In March, Manafort’s team filed a lawsuit against the special counsel’s authority, but it wasn’t well received. But some interesting things did come out of it.

Mueller claimed that Manafort was in contact with Russian intelligence officers:

And we did learn more about Mueller’s charter.

These filings have had some effect. Like, for instance, yesterday we learned that Mueller’s team lied to the court about Manafort being in contact with Russian intelligence.

Today, Manafort and the special counsel were back in court and the special counsel had a very rough day.

This particular statement is also telling. To this point the special counsel has insisted that President Trump is a “subject” in the investigation. The judge indicates that Trump is actually the target of the special counsel’s investigation.

This is the clincher:

I thought the prosecution telling the judge, essentially, “if we show you our charter, we’ll have to kill you” was pretty amusing.

This doesn’t help Manafort out a lot. The judge was questioning why a case that had originated in the Eastern District of Virginia years ago suddenly got new life with the special counsel. The best case for Manafort is that this case is tossed back to the local US Attorney who has a lot of real cases to deal with and whose office had already decided this was not worthy of prosecution. Where it really has an impact is on Mueller. If the Manafort case is deemed to be outside Mueller’s charter…and we have to assume that if the special counsel had any direct authority here they would have presented it in court…then all of Mueller’s questions about Comey’s firing and his feelings about Jeff Sessions and why he prefers his steak well-done will be challenged by Trump’s legal team and Mueller’s already slim chances of getting a Trump interview get even slimmer.

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Source: https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/04/federal-judge-manafort-case-says-special-counsel-lying-targeting-trump/


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