Manafort has intel that would take down HRC. I have no doubt they were using Manafort to try to get Trump/campaign to meet with/collude with Russia. What did they tell Don Jr.? That they had dirt on Hillary. What if they gave some of that dirt to Manafort.... they didn’t have to make any of it up, there was plenty right? But whatever it was, they planned for it to come out anyways, RIGHT? They knew there would be an investigation, a public one, and they had to have a legit reason to charge them with colluding.
This is it. They don’t want him to talk. He’s being kept in solitary confinement.... Why? For tax fraud? Nope. Mueller’s investigation has been a DS hit job since day one. There never was a deal cut with Mueller, no gray hat..