Politics FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort’s home (1 Viewer)

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FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trump’s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort’s home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with various records. Jason Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort, confirmed that agents executed a warrant at one of the political consultant’s homes and that Manafort cooperated with the search.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.b2e6755dbfe2
 
It's embarrassing how obvious a nothingburger this is. Kudos to Mueller for using every tool at his disposal--grand juries, raids--to completely debunk this sore loser conspiracy theory. Mueller must be rolling his eyes at the wasted time every time he subpoenas more documents or raids another "collaborator."
 
Minstrel said:
It's embarrassing how obvious a nothingburger this is. Kudos to Mueller for using every tool at his disposal--grand juries, raids--to completely debunk this sore loser conspiracy theory. Mueller must be rolling his eyes at the wasted time every time he subpoenas more documents or raids another "collaborator."
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You truly are a master of it aren't you?
 
I enjoyed the title, "predawn raid!"

They showed up and served a search warrant. Hardly a raid, doubt there was more than 2 or 3 agents and none of them had guns out.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
I enjoyed the title, "predawn raid!"

They showed up and served a search warrant. Hardly a raid, doubt there was more than 2 or 3 agents and none of them had guns out.
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A raid doesn't mean violence. It means an unexpected search of the premises for documents. At least, that's how I've always seen it used--raiding a place for documents/evidence.
 
I understand they actually focused on Manafort's kitchen, and took away a tomato, a jar of pickles, some mayo, and an onion to put on their nothingburger.

barfo
 
I wonder if they wear body cams to show what they do. Like that drug planting cop recently.
 
barfo said:
I understand they actually focused on Manafort's kitchen, and took away a tomato, a jar of pickles, some mayo, and an onion to put on their nothingburger.

barfo
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We know they're interested in the meeting Jr took with the Russian lawyer. Manafort was there.

That's all I read into it.
 
Yeah, not much to this. Everyone around Trump is super dirty and collaborated with Russia, including his son, but it's kind of ridiculous that people are spinning conspiracy theories about Trump. Just because everyone around him collaborated with Russia doesn't mean there's any basis to investigate Trump.
 
Minstrel said:
Yeah, not much to this. Everyone around Trump is super dirty and collaborated with Russia, including his son, but it's kind of ridiculous that people are spinning conspiracy theories about Trump. Just because everyone around him collaborated with Russia doesn't mean there's any basis to investigate Trump.
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How many Rose Law Firm people went to prison?
 
Minstrel said:
Yeah, not much to this. Everyone around Trump is super dirty and collaborated with Russia, including his son, but it's kind of ridiculous that people are spinning conspiracy theories about Trump. Just because everyone around him collaborated with Russia doesn't mean there's any basis to investigate Trump.
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Yeah it reminds me of the Fox news campaign against Obama's birth certificate. Different party same lies lol
 
Denny Crane said:
We know they're interested in the meeting Jr took with the Russian lawyer. Manafort was there.

That's all I read into it.
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What I read into it is that the investigators don't trust Manafort to hand over the evidence....which to me....is a good enough reason
 
riverman said:
What I read into it is that the investigators don't trust Manafort to hand over the evidence....which to me....is a good enough reason
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Good. It should satisfy the debunking of the conspiracy theory. People can't claim Mueller didn't do everything he could to prove something.
 
Minstrel said:
It's embarrassing how obvious a nothingburger this is. Kudos to Mueller for using every tool at his disposal--grand juries, raids--to completely debunk this sore loser conspiracy theory. Mueller must be rolling his eyes at the wasted time every time he subpoenas more documents or raids another "collaborator."
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Denny Crane said:
Good. It should satisfy the debunking of the conspiracy theory. People can't claim Mueller didn't do everything he could to prove something.
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We're on the same page. I figured we would be.
 
Denny Crane said:
debunking of the conspiracy theory
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rather satisfy the investigation's knowledge that Russians fucked around with our election process.......which we already know so it's no longer a conspiracy theory.....this is a move to get Manafort to plea bargain, which he probably will.....a lot of lies have opened this can of worms and you should be concerned that our system of checks and balances is working for us......not working to cover up incompetent members of Trump's circle of sleazebags who are pedaling access to the executive branch for favors with foreign govt's
 
riverman said:
you really should stay on topic......going back into your Hillary archives doesn't add anything here. The topic is nothingburgers and mayo
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It is on topic. I didn't bring up the guilt by association claim. I just wanted to see if that kind of reasoning only applies to Trump (or republicans).
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/us/politics/paul-manafort-home-search-mueller.html

Until now, it was only known that Mr. Manafort was under investigation for his business dealings with his son-in-law, his role in the 2016 meeting between Trump campaign officials and the Russians and whether his work for the Ukranian government violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

The government rarely prosecutes cases related to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and Mr. Manafort’s consulting firm retroactively filed forms with the Justice Department last month to be in compliance with the act.

But the search warrant for the tax and foreign banking records suggests that investigators are looking at criminal charges related to the federal Bank Secrecy Act, which requires Americans to report their foreign banking accounts.
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Russia, Russia, Russia. Collusion, collusion, collusion.
 
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