Many, many, many breads back, around the beginning of the Manafort trial, I left a post here where I awarded Judge Ellis the Medal of Valor. I think it was after he told the Mueller team they using this trial as a pretext to pressure President Trump.

Judge is 78 years old. A hero to me. Without a strong checks and balances against government overreach, you're left with tyranny. Unlike the FISC judges, corrupt partisans at doj, Hillary's comped team at foggy bottom or 7th floor at hoover, he didn't roll over and enable the abuse nor, in my opinion, has he trampled on the Constitutional safeguards bestowed on Manafort. Though Manafort was eventual held without bond, serious allegations were made regarding witness tampering. We'll learn soon enough if those charges had merit. I would be shocked if, regardless of the jury's decision, Manafort or anyone on his team had anything but praise for Ellis' conduct throughout the trial.

That said, it is my hope the jury has the testicular fortitude to return a not-guilty verdict for every charge. I hope the spirit of the jury in the Bundy-clan's trial carries over. At a minimum, declaring a mistrial.

Should there be a verdict of guilty, which would allow a lengthy punitive prison sentence be imposed, it is my hope the President offers a pardon. I care not whether the allegations are true. When Hillary, with her countless acts of felonious behavior, is exonerated but Manafort is held to account, then we are no longer a nation of laws…we are a nation of man. When that occurs you have lost the Constitutional Republic, the system of governance this country was founded upon.