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MUELLER TURNING MANAFORT'S

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 20:25:47 +0000

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MUELLER TURNING MANAFORT'S TRIAL STRATEGY AGAINST HIM: Prosecutors are seeking to introduce evidence in next month's DC trial that Manafort blamed his companies for failing to report foreign bank accounts during his VIRGINIA trial. pic.twitter.com/aT7DkNqEPK
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) August 24, 2018

her story verified now;

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 03:16:42 +0000

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her story verified now;

MANAFORT JURY VERDICT FORM now is public.
They scratched out “guilty” on two charges and wrote “no consensus.” 10 hung counts where the breakdown was 11 jurors voting guilty to 1 juror voting not guilty, per the form. They unanimously convicted Manafort on 8 criminal charges. pic.twitter.com/Kkwcc4WZm8
— Katelyn Polantz (@kpolantz) August 23, 2018

Pro-Trump juror voted to

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 02:16:19 +0000

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Pro-Trump juror voted to convict Manafort. Facts and law matter, not politics, in courts. https://t.co/Kc62mXCgVK
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) August 23, 2018

Manafort juror reveals lone

artappraiser — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 05:35:50 +0000

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Manafort juror reveals lone holdout prevented Mueller team from convicting on all counts

By Peter Doocy, Jake Gibson & Lucas Tomlinson @ FoxNew.com, 2 hrs. ago

She's an avowed admitted Trump fan and still is one (picture proof with MAGA hat included!) But she was not the holdout, she was among the "guilty on all counts". Excerpts:

[....] Duncan described herself as an avid supporter of President Trump, but said she was moved by four full boxes of exhibits provided by Mueller’s team – though she was skeptical about prosecutors' motives in the financial crimes case.

“Certainly Mr. Manafort got caught breaking the law, but he wouldn’t have gotten caught if they weren’t after President Trump,” Duncan said of the special counsel’s case, which she separately described as a “witch hunt to try to find Russian collusion,” borrowing a phrase Trump has used in tweets more than 100 times.

“Something that went through my mind is, this should have been a tax audit,” Duncan said, sympathizing with the foundation of the Manafort defense team’s argument.

[....] A political allegiance to the president also raised conflicted feelings in Duncan, but she said it ultimately didn’t change her decision about the former Trump campaign chairman.

“Finding Mr. Manafort guilty was hard for me, I wanted him to be innocent, I really wanted him to be innocent, but he wasn’t,” Duncan said. “That’s the part of a juror, you have to have due diligence and deliberate and look at the evidence and come up with an informed and intelligent decision, which I did.”

[....] Judge Ellis told jurors, including Duncan, that their names would remain sealed after the trial’s conclusion, because of dangerous threats he received during the proceedings.But the verdict gave Duncan a license to share her story without fear.“Had the verdict gone any other way, I might have been,” Duncan said.

“Every day when I drove, I had my Make America Great Again hat in the backseat,” said Duncan, who said she plans to vote for Trump again in 2020. “Just as a reminder.”

Manafort’s Curious Defense:

artappraiser — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:56:15 +0000

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Manafort’s Curious Defense: It Is Easy To Hang on A Hung Jury Strategy

by Jonathan Turley, Aug. 20, before the verdict came in

Natasha just published a

artappraiser — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 23:48:01 +0000

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Natasha just published a report:

The Dramatic Conclusion to Paul Manafort’s Trial https://t.co/AatabvK6BV
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 21, 2018