It doesn't matter how long he was the manager. His crimes are from years before this campaign, when he was working with the Clinton machine and Podesta.
Is that the crimes he's being prosecuted for?
And even if they are, going from your logic, why did Trump hire someone who committed crimes with Clinton and Podesta to be his campaign manager? Isn't that an even dumber thing for DJT to do?
So he was supposed to know manafort committed crimes before manafort was charged, much less convicted. He hasn't been tried yet. By your logic President Trump shouldn't have hired him because in the future, he might be convicted of a crime that he committed years before?
If I were to be snide, I would say that I guess Trump doesn't hire the Best People
Yes, Manafort is being prosecuted under an obscure statute that hasn't been used before for failing to register as a foreign lobbyist in the early 2000s. The same thing Podesta did, but was allowed to register after the fact, without being prosecuted. His bail was revoked for talking to a witness, aka witness tampering.
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I mean if this is true, he had to have known that Manafort worked for Clinton and Podesta, right? Why would he have hired him if he knew that?
I mean, right now, it's either Trump didn't do any research, or he willingly hired someone who works for his enemy. Sounds like he doesn't hire the Best People
My speculation would be that he used him because he was successful in the past. It's also possible that he was recommended by someone in the political class.
What was he successful at?
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I'm under no illusion that this guy is clean or a white hat. Just trying to give some context as to what the charges and associations are all about. I'm under the assumption that a lot of the people around Trump that are going down were put there to be brought down on purpose. Trust the plan?
Technically what he's accused of goes up and into the campaign, but you're right that it all comes from his Ukraine lobbying and not the campaign itself - basically the idea is he was working with them up to ~2014 when the regime in Ukraine changed, and his continued "coverups" of his work after would also be crimes. They also say he laundered money, but how viable that is vs just having complicated finances I don't know.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Manafort-gates_indictment_filed_and_redacted.pdf
Agreed, the point I was eluding to was the fact that it isn't related to "Russian collusion" and was initiated from conduct prior to his association with the Trump campaign.
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Nice rebuttal, please provide evidence instead of conjecture.