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Rick Wilson: Paul Manafort Gets a 47-Month Taste of What's Coming for Trump's Tools
Paul Manafort Gets a 47-Month Taste of What’s Coming for Trump’s Tools
Trump will always lie. He will always throw you under the bus. He will always shift the blame. He will always promise you everything and leave you hanging.
Rick Wilson
Rick Wilson
03.07.19 7:24 PM ET
https://www.thedailybeast.com/paul-manafort-gets-a-47-month-taste-of-whats-coming-for-trumps-tools?source=twitter&via=desktop
Paul Manafort got off easy—and he may still die in prison. Thursday’s penalty, though lighter than expected, is still likely a death sentence, especially with a second sentence to come.
For all of America’s colorful history, you can’t say many presidential campaign managers or shady pillars of Washington’s perpetual lobbying swamp ended up with a 47-month sentence, below the 19 years or more than sentencing guidelines recommended as the judge (who apparently has never heard of “The Google”) took into consideration Manafort’s heretofore “blameless” life.
Manafort’s life—which had been anything but blameless—is nonetheless over. He faces more sentencing in his D.C. trial next week, with a recommendation there of as much as 10 more years. He may never see more than a patch of daylight in the prison yard until he is carried out feet-first and buried in a potter’s field.
If anyone ever tempted the fates in our political ecosystem, it was Manafort. He lived a life of opulence bordering on the decadent, fueled by a career made by serving the worst authoritarians, dictators, warlords, and shit-tier human-rights abusers he could scrape out of the gutter to monetize. His bygone days as a mainstream Republican consultant were far in the rearview mirror when Donald Trump tapped his old friend Paul Manafort to run his 2016 campaign.
Trump will always lie. He will always throw you under the bus. He will always shift the blame. He will always promise you everything and leave you hanging.
Rick Wilson
Rick Wilson
03.07.19 7:24 PM ET
https://www.thedailybeast.com/paul-manafort-gets-a-47-month-taste-of-whats-coming-for-trumps-tools?source=twitter&via=desktop
Paul Manafort got off easy—and he may still die in prison. Thursday’s penalty, though lighter than expected, is still likely a death sentence, especially with a second sentence to come.
For all of America’s colorful history, you can’t say many presidential campaign managers or shady pillars of Washington’s perpetual lobbying swamp ended up with a 47-month sentence, below the 19 years or more than sentencing guidelines recommended as the judge (who apparently has never heard of “The Google”) took into consideration Manafort’s heretofore “blameless” life.
Manafort’s life—which had been anything but blameless—is nonetheless over. He faces more sentencing in his D.C. trial next week, with a recommendation there of as much as 10 more years. He may never see more than a patch of daylight in the prison yard until he is carried out feet-first and buried in a potter’s field.
If anyone ever tempted the fates in our political ecosystem, it was Manafort. He lived a life of opulence bordering on the decadent, fueled by a career made by serving the worst authoritarians, dictators, warlords, and shit-tier human-rights abusers he could scrape out of the gutter to monetize. His bygone days as a mainstream Republican consultant were far in the rearview mirror when Donald Trump tapped his old friend Paul Manafort to run his 2016 campaign.