And I think it is safe to say that if Manafort had not served, however briefly, in the Trump administration, he would never have been convicted of a single one of these charges.
His only real crime he was so aggressiveely prosecuted for was having an allegience to Trump.
In any case, the Mueller investigation is winding down, reports are that many of the lawyers on the Mueller investigation have left or are in the process of setting up their subsequent employment, and that the final report is being prepared for attorney general Barr within the next few weeks. It's over. There is no "collusion". It's over. For all the vindictive prosecution, the manufactured "Russia Dossier" allegations and illegal FISA warrants, for all the lies and false narratives of Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell, it's over.
House Democrats are desperately trying to open multiple new committee investigations to keep the "Russia collusion" myth alive, and spread it to investigating every aspect of Trump's life and that of his family, but they lack the resources that the Mueller investigation had, so that narrative is smoke and mirrors and will go nowhere. It's over.
