{"id":25203,"date":"2017-10-30T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=25203"},"modified":"2017-10-30T10:05:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:05:43","slug":"and-the-mueller-shoe-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=25203","title":{"rendered":"And the Mueller shoe drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all. Yesterday, I wrote about the \u201cSealed indictment\u201d that had been deliberately leaked to the media by Mueller\u2019s band of thugs that someone was going to be arrested this morning. Many people speculated that it was going to be Paul Manafort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish.jpg?w=552&amp;ssl=1 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This morning, the news broke that Manafort was the one being arrested along with a former partner, Rick Gates. However, the charges leveled seem to have nothing to do with Russia or collusion. Manafort is being charged with Tax Fraud. Here are some of the details from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5031419\/Paul-Manafort-Rick-Gates-told-SURRENDER.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>the Daily Mail<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort surrendered to federal authorities on Monday as the first charges from the probe of possible Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election are expected to soon be unsealed. Manafort&#8217;s onetime business partner and protege Rick Gates has also been told to turn himself in. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>And what was it that Mueller and his \u201cPeople\u201d looked for?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Mueller&#8217;s probe has reportedly focused on wire transfers Manafort made from Ukraine to private accounts and whether he paid taxes on that income. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/former-trump-campaign-chairman-paul-manafort-charged-in-russia-probe-1509365767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported Monday that at least one charge leveled against Manafort is federal tax fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tax fraud? Is that all?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>Mueller, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been looking into possible links between Trump aides and foreign governments, as well as potential money laundering, tax evasion and other financial crimes, according to sources familiar with the probe. He also is exploring whether Trump or his aides have tried to obstruct the investigation. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well here\u2019s the thing. Mueller was aiming at the wrong target. Last week news broke on the FusionGPS file that led to Mueller\u2019s appointment, as well as more information on the Uranium One bribery scandal. The FusionGPS Trump Dossier was actually paid for by the Felonia von Pantsuit election committee along with the Democrat National Committee. Interestingly, it looks like the way this was paid for may have broken a number of laws regarding&#8230;Money laundering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8876\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm-300x240.jpg?resize=300%2C240\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?resize=150%2C120&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?resize=400%2C320&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for the Uranium One mess, that one has already started to blow back on Mueller since he was in charge of the FBI at the time. One of the things that also occurred last week was the Confidential Informant who brought in a truckload of evidence was released from a non-disclosure agreement he was forced to sign. The agreement prevented him from talking to congress on threat of imprisonment. Many people were questioning the timing of this indictment after last week\u2019s news came out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>The move represents a dramatic turn in special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation. Manafort was seen leaving his home at 8:00 a.m. with his attorney.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s questionable in my opinion, unless they plan to try and flip Manafort. The problem with that is, he has nothing to offer. The whole collusion thing was made up by the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>A federal grand jury approved the indictments on Friday and a judge ordered them sealed. A White House official told DailyMail.com on Monday that the administration may not comment at all on the arrests. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The thing about indictments is that they don\u2019t prove guilt. Bluntly, the defendant has no chance to actually defend himself and may not even know about the grand jury\u2019s actions. The old saying, \u201cA prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich\u201d is quite accurate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/indicted-sandwich.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15714\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/indicted-sandwich-300x206.jpg?resize=300%2C206\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/indicted-sandwich.jpg?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/indicted-sandwich.jpg?w=490&amp;ssl=1 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now Manafort managed to get himself fired from the Trump campaign last year due to some shenanigans they discovered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>Manafort was fired shortly after the convention, to be replaced by pollster Kellyanne Conway. That move came after reports that Manafort pocketed at least $12 million in undisclosed payments from Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russia former Ukrainian president.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As I recall, Manafort\u2019s \u201cskills\u201d at managing a winning campaign weren\u2019t all that good. He was giving Donald Trump a lot of advice that was, to put it mildly, a great way to give us president Felonia von Pantsuit. Once he was gone, Ms. Conway took the reigns and, well, the rest is history. (As is Felonia von Pantsuit\u2019s political ambitions)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/3b\/12\/8d\/3b128dbf7b54fd2abdd35b4fff82d0e1.png?resize=400%2C191&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>That possibility spurred some of Trump&#8217;s conservative allies to call for Mueller&#8217;s firing. Sebastian Gorka, an outspoken former adviser who left the White House in August, said on Twitter that Mueller &#8216;should be stripped of his authority&#8217; and investigated if he executed warrants in the probe. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>I am in agreement that Muller and his clown posse should be shut down. However, as I understand it, Sebastian Gorka was invited to seek other opportunities elsewhere. Mueller\u2019s conflict of interest is well documented and he should never have been appointed in the first place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>The White House said in the summer that Trump had no intention of firing Mueller even though he questioned his impartiality. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think they will need to fire Mueller. If things pan out in the Uranium One investigations, there\u2019s a good chance that Mueller himself could face indictment. As for Manafort and Gates, now the justice system goes to work. If Manafort can show that he didn\u2019t evade taxes or any of the other things, this case may not even reach a jury. As for the collusion nonsense? Well, it may be the Democrats that end up looking for a plea agreement.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/b3\/59\/83\/b3598322c2639ab8b36c892e790c0a27.jpg?resize=317%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"317\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thatisall<\/p>\n<p><i><b>~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[yasr_visitor_votes size=&#8221;large&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all. Yesterday, I wrote about the \u201cSealed indictment\u201d that had been deliberately leaked to the media by Mueller\u2019s band of thugs that someone was going to be arrested this morning. Many people speculated that it was going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=25203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,71,8],"tags":[3,303,339,421,101,8,21,34],"class_list":["post-25203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-news-of-the-day","category-politics","tag-crime","tag-donald-trump","tag-felonia-von-pantsuit","tag-mueller","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-scams","tag-stupidity"],"views":599,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25208,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=25208","url_meta":{"origin":25203,"position":0},"title":"Swamp Dwellers continue threatening Trump","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"October 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. It\u2019s been about 24 hours since Paul Manafort was arrested by Robert Mueller. In that time, many pundits are commenting on what a \u201cNothingburger\u201d without fries this indictment has turned out to be. The charges against Manafort and Gates were for things that allegedly happened prior to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nothing-to-see-here-300x191.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":25223,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=25223","url_meta":{"origin":25203,"position":1},"title":"Will Mueller follow the money to K Street?","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"November 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. Monday, Robert Mueller charged Paul Manafort and Robert Gates with assorted money crimes and not registering as a foreign lobbyist. The charges Mueller and his goon squad levied has sent a shock wave through what is known as \u201cK Street.\u201d K Street is the Seville Row of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Just Desserts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Just Desserts","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=135"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Evil-Grin-300x169.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26201,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=26201","url_meta":{"origin":25203,"position":2},"title":"Mueller\u2019s court cases beginning to fall apart","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"May 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. We\u2019ve known for some time now that Robert Mueller\u2019s \u201cInvestigation\u201d into the Trump Campaign\u2019s \u201cCollusion with Russia\u201d was nothing more then an excuse to manufacture a scandal that would lead to the removal of President Trump. Mueller has a long history of abusing his authority, and likes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/8a\/f4\/61\/8af4613e523fe3c4b63c96f220f22a40.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":25239,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=25239","url_meta":{"origin":25203,"position":3},"title":"Mueller bracing for challenges","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"November 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor has started to wander far afield of his mandate. As I\u2019ve written before, he went after Paul Manafort, ostensibly for paperwork violations. 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