Here's Paul Manafort’s strategy for acquittal by Tom Rogan

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Here's Paul Manafort’s strategy for acquittal
by Tom Rogan
 | August 08, 2018 01:50 PM



In the ongoing trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the latter's defense team has a two-track strategy to win acquittal. That being to substantially degrade the credibility of the prosecution’s witnesses and to frustrate the prosecution’s effort to show Manafort engaged in financial criminality.

Yet, those strategies operate in common cause. After all, to frustrate the notion that Manafort evaded taxes, laundered money, hid his foreign client relationships, and so on, the defense must shift the blame for those activities onto Rick Gates. A prosecution witness who is cooperating with the government in return for a reduced sentence, Gates is the pivot on which the defense is likely to prevail or fail. And that’s why we've seen the defense’s current cross-examination of Gates take such an aggressive edge.

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[Frank Cannon]

Manafarts strategy is to sit there and be quite while the morons in the prosecution sink their own case.....at least that is what is happening so far.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Manafarts strategy is to sit there and be quite while the morons in the prosecution sink their own case.....at least that is what is happening so far.

I wonder if he's going to testify.  Part of me would like to see the judge beat the crap out of the prosecution again ... but since Gates has testified under oath that there is "no collaboration" for what he has said---screw it, why testify?   (And the defense attorney did a great job on this part of the cross -- he actually had Gates say "no collaboration".)

[the_doc]

I wonder if he's going to testify.  Part of me would like to see the judge beat the crap out of the prosecution again ... but since Gates has testified under oath that there is "no collaboration" for what he has said---screw it, why testify?   (And the defense attorney did a great job on this part of the cross -- he actually had Gates say "no collaboration".)

That was a cute move against a dunce of a hostile witness.  I don't know how much it impeaches the witness, but it was probably fun doing it.

[corbe]

   After his millions dry up from the Ukrainian Russian Puppet he couldn't save, he works for the Trump Campaign for Free.

[Cyber Liberty]

That was a cute move against a dunce of a hostile witness.  I don't know how much it impeaches the witness, but it was probably fun doing it.

Gates did a pretty good job describing the many ways he victimized the Defendant.  A pretty odd tack for the Prosecution to be taking.