It's like they are trying to destroy themselves… now that almost ever city is saddled with huge stadium debt.
Gates testimony destroys the narrative
The left has been saying that Manafort owes Russian oligarchs millions of dollars, and that is why he volunteered for the Trump campaign, to erase that debt.
When in reality, those were not loans at all… but simply money taken from his offshore accounts, declared as a loan to avoid taxable income. Manafort isn't in debt at all… he made 60 million off his Ukraine work.
Meaning, the only people who really had leverage over him is the FBI/IRS. Did they ignore the laundering in exchange for being a plant?
>Nice assessment anon. I'm with you, I think the IRS/FBI blackmailed him a long time ago
I'll add that the judge isn't giving them any leeway to talk about the source of the funds, since this case is just tax evasion.
So I don't know if or how they are going to get into anything about motives or blackmail on the campaign.