Dershowitz: Mueller Hoping Manafort Will Choose to Testify Against Trump Rather Than 'Die in Prison'

[mystery-ak]

Alan Dershowitz said that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is hoping that Paul Manafort will opt to testify against the president, rather than face a lengthy prison sentence.

Manafort faces numerous charges, including conspiracy to commit money laundering, making false statements and working as an unregistered agent of the government of Ukraine. If convicted, he faces decades in prison.

He's also facing separate conspiracy charges in Washington, D.C. His trial in Virginia is set to begin Tuesday.

Appearing on "America's Newsroom," the Harvard Law professor emeritus said that if Manafort is convicted, it would give Mueller an opportunity to question him about the president's actions.

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[Victoria33]

@mystery-ak

Faced with prison if convicted, if Mueller questions him, he will tell the truth and it won't be a lie because if he die lie, Mueller would find out, and Manafort would spend his whole life in prison.  If he knows nothing Trump did that was unlawful, he will say that, too. Just because he knows Trump does not mean Trump was involved in anything Manafort did that was unlawful.  From the bit I have heard/read so far, Manafort's legal problems started a long time ago.  Basically, then, I don't know jack about this.