First, the idiot hilariously compares Manafort to Capone-well, they both got into a lot of trouble for not paying their taxes, I'll give him that-then whines about Numbnuts being in solitary confinement, although "convicted of nothing." Hey, Dipshit, that's the way it works, when you're accused of a serious crime and, either can't make bail, or CAN make bail but then to stupidly violate it 7 ways to Sunday, they put your ass in jail while you're awaiting conviction, uh, I mean, your trial. Nixon had to "walk back" prejudicial comments he made re: Manson, and Twittler's tweets about Sessions and Mueller for future trials were even worse. And, why is he whining about not being told about Manafort? Has he forgotten that he keeps saying Manafort only worked for him for "a very short time(not the 49 days he lied about, of course, but not that long)? He evidently figured it out, since he canned Manafort.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/tru...rt-is-being-treated-worse-than-al-capone.html
Trump says ex-campaign chief Paul Manafort is being treated 'worse' than mob boss Al Capone
Dan Mangan | Kevin Breuninger
Published 9 Hours Ago Updated 5 Hours Ago
President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — on trial on federal bank fraud and tax charges — is being treated "worse" than "Public Enemy Number One" Al Capone.
Trump's comparison of the treatment of Manafort and the notorious gangster, part of tweet storm attacking special counsel prosecutor Robert Mueller, is a sharp departure from longstanding practice by presidents of not weighing in on a criminal case because of the risk of swaying a jury or causing a mistrial.
"It's inappropriate ... for the president of the United States to be making comments like this on Twitter on an ongoing trial," said Richard Serafini, a former federal prosecutor now in private defense practice in Florida. "It's just another violation of a norm, a longstanding norm," Serafini said. "I mean, it's just not done."
In that same online diatribe, Trump questioned why the "government" hadn't told him when he hired Manafort in 2016 to run his campaign that the longtime Republican strategist was under investigation.
Manafort was sent to jail in June, when a judge revoked his bond after allegations he tried to tamper with witnesses. He's been held in solitary confinement since then.
Mueller is investigating possible collusion by Trump campaign officials with Russians trying to interfere with the 2016 election. But the charges against Manafort, to which he has pleaded not guilty, are unrelated to that issue. Instead he is charged with crimes related to income earned for consulting work performed in Ukraine from 2005 to 2014.
Source: Cook County Jail
Cook County Jail mugshot of Al Capone
President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — on trial on federal bank fraud and tax charges — is being treated "worse" than "Public Enemy Number One" Al Capone.
Trump's comparison of the treatment of Manafort and the notorious gangster, part of tweet storm attacking special counsel prosecutor Robert Mueller, is a sharp departure from longstanding practice by presidents of not weighing in on a criminal case because of the risk of swaying a jury or causing a mistrial.
"It's inappropriate ... for the president of the United States to be making comments like this on Twitter on an ongoing trial," said Richard Serafini, a former federal prosecutor now in private defense practice in Florida. "It's just another violation of a norm, a longstanding norm," Serafini said. "I mean, it's just not done."
In that same online diatribe, Trump questioned why the "government" hadn't told him when he hired Manafort in 2016 to run his campaign that the longtime Republican strategist was under investigation.
Manafort was sent to jail in June, when a judge revoked his bond after allegations he tried to tamper with witnesses. He's been held in solitary confinement since then.
Mueller is investigating possible collusion by Trump campaign officials with Russians trying to interfere with the 2016 election. But the charges against Manafort, to which he has pleaded not guilty, are unrelated to that issue. Instead he is charged with crimes related to income earned for consulting work performed in Ukraine from 2005 to 2014.
The presidential tweets came as Manafort's trial was entering its second day in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.
Serafini said that while Trump "probably did mean" his tweets "as favorable to Manafort," there was a risk of Trump's Twitter followers viewing Manafort in a negative light because of the juxtaposition with Capone, who ended up going to prison on tax-related charges, not for his bloodier crimes in Prohibition-era Chicago.
Gerald Lefcourt, a criminal defense lawyer in New York, said Trump's "tweets sound like a message is being sent to Manafort to stay strong and if things go bad I have your back."
Lefcourt said Trump appeared to be hinting at the possibility of a pardon for Manafort.
Neither prosecutors nor defense lawyers at that trial mentioned Trump's tweets to Judge T.S. Ellis III on Wednesday.
However, public comments in the past have led attorneys in a trial to request a mistrial.
In 1970, President Richard Nixon said that Charles Manson, who was then on trial for a series of killings carried out allegedly at his behest, "was guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason."
Manson's lawyers then asked for a mistrial — which was denied.
Facing a backlash over his remarks, Nixon issued a statement saying "the last thing I would do is prejudice the legal rights of any person in any circumstances."
"The defendants should be presumed to be innocent at this stage of their trial," Nixon said.
Serafini, the former prosecutor, said he did not believe that Trump's tweets were grounds for a mistrial in Manafort's case. He said he has tried cases before Ellis in the past, and the judge could instruct jurors to not pay attention to anything they see about Manafort on Twitter or elsewhere.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/tru...rt-is-being-treated-worse-than-al-capone.html
Trump says ex-campaign chief Paul Manafort is being treated 'worse' than mob boss Al Capone
- President Trump suggests his Paul Manafort is being treated "worse" than "legendary mob boss, killer and 'Public Enemy Number One" Al Capone.
- Trump's comparison of Manafort to the notorious gangster Capone, part of tweet-storm attacking special counsel prosecutor Robert Mueller, is a sharp departure from longstanding practice by presidents of not weighing in on criminal cases.
- Earlier in the diatribe, Trump had questioned why the "government" hadn't told him when he hired Manafort in 2016 to run his campaign that the longtime Republican strategist was under investigation.
Dan Mangan | Kevin Breuninger
Published 9 Hours Ago Updated 5 Hours Ago
President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — on trial on federal bank fraud and tax charges — is being treated "worse" than "Public Enemy Number One" Al Capone.
Trump's comparison of the treatment of Manafort and the notorious gangster, part of tweet storm attacking special counsel prosecutor Robert Mueller, is a sharp departure from longstanding practice by presidents of not weighing in on a criminal case because of the risk of swaying a jury or causing a mistrial.
"It's inappropriate ... for the president of the United States to be making comments like this on Twitter on an ongoing trial," said Richard Serafini, a former federal prosecutor now in private defense practice in Florida. "It's just another violation of a norm, a longstanding norm," Serafini said. "I mean, it's just not done."
In that same online diatribe, Trump questioned why the "government" hadn't told him when he hired Manafort in 2016 to run his campaign that the longtime Republican strategist was under investigation.
Manafort was sent to jail in June, when a judge revoked his bond after allegations he tried to tamper with witnesses. He's been held in solitary confinement since then.
Mueller is investigating possible collusion by Trump campaign officials with Russians trying to interfere with the 2016 election. But the charges against Manafort, to which he has pleaded not guilty, are unrelated to that issue. Instead he is charged with crimes related to income earned for consulting work performed in Ukraine from 2005 to 2014.
Source: Cook County JailCook County Jail mugshot of Al Capone
President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — on trial on federal bank fraud and tax charges — is being treated "worse" than "Public Enemy Number One" Al Capone.
Trump's comparison of the treatment of Manafort and the notorious gangster, part of tweet storm attacking special counsel prosecutor Robert Mueller, is a sharp departure from longstanding practice by presidents of not weighing in on a criminal case because of the risk of swaying a jury or causing a mistrial.
"It's inappropriate ... for the president of the United States to be making comments like this on Twitter on an ongoing trial," said Richard Serafini, a former federal prosecutor now in private defense practice in Florida. "It's just another violation of a norm, a longstanding norm," Serafini said. "I mean, it's just not done."
In that same online diatribe, Trump questioned why the "government" hadn't told him when he hired Manafort in 2016 to run his campaign that the longtime Republican strategist was under investigation.
Manafort was sent to jail in June, when a judge revoked his bond after allegations he tried to tamper with witnesses. He's been held in solitary confinement since then.
Mueller is investigating possible collusion by Trump campaign officials with Russians trying to interfere with the 2016 election. But the charges against Manafort, to which he has pleaded not guilty, are unrelated to that issue. Instead he is charged with crimes related to income earned for consulting work performed in Ukraine from 2005 to 2014.
The presidential tweets came as Manafort's trial was entering its second day in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.
Serafini said that while Trump "probably did mean" his tweets "as favorable to Manafort," there was a risk of Trump's Twitter followers viewing Manafort in a negative light because of the juxtaposition with Capone, who ended up going to prison on tax-related charges, not for his bloodier crimes in Prohibition-era Chicago.
Gerald Lefcourt, a criminal defense lawyer in New York, said Trump's "tweets sound like a message is being sent to Manafort to stay strong and if things go bad I have your back."
Lefcourt said Trump appeared to be hinting at the possibility of a pardon for Manafort.
Neither prosecutors nor defense lawyers at that trial mentioned Trump's tweets to Judge T.S. Ellis III on Wednesday.
However, public comments in the past have led attorneys in a trial to request a mistrial.
In 1970, President Richard Nixon said that Charles Manson, who was then on trial for a series of killings carried out allegedly at his behest, "was guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason."
Manson's lawyers then asked for a mistrial — which was denied.
Facing a backlash over his remarks, Nixon issued a statement saying "the last thing I would do is prejudice the legal rights of any person in any circumstances."
"The defendants should be presumed to be innocent at this stage of their trial," Nixon said.
Serafini, the former prosecutor, said he did not believe that Trump's tweets were grounds for a mistrial in Manafort's case. He said he has tried cases before Ellis in the past, and the judge could instruct jurors to not pay attention to anything they see about Manafort on Twitter or elsewhere.
to the corrupt conflicted "Bloodhound Bob" and his 13 Angry Democrats!
