Y'know, the scandal Democrats all want to compare this to is Watergate. And if you look at the sentences of those convicted in that far more serious conspiracy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal#Legal_action_against_Nixon_Administration_members

...most of them were imprisoned for only 4 to 6 months.
The ones who were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years ended up serving about 18 months.
Even E. Howard Hunt who supervised the break-in only got about 6 months.
Attorney General Colson served 19 months.
And the one who got the harshest sentence, who supervised the break-in, Gordon Liddy, was sentenced to 8 to 20 years, and ultimately because his sentence was so disproportionate to the others, President Carter commuted it, so he served a little over 4 years.


So... It frankly pisses me off that Democrats want Manafort to be sentenced to 20 years (that's what Robet Mueller and Andrew Weissman gave as a sentence recommendation), which is really vindictive and disproportionate. Even if Manafort is sentenced to even more time next week at his second sentencing hearing for other charges, it would be highly disproportionate for him to actually serve even 4 actual years in jail.

Meanwhile, for actual crimes Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and other aides who actually betrayed the nation and compromised national security with:
1) Hillary's illegal private e-mail server, that knowingly compromised access to her top secret e-mails to the Russians and Chinese EVERY DAY she was secretary of state. Obama also communicated with her on this e-mail, under a false name (consciousness of guilt).
2) selling foreign access to State Department cooperation in exchange for about $150 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation,
3) the Uranium One deal selling a vast percentage of U.S. Uranium to Russia,
4) negligence, perjury and cover-up of Hillary/Obama's Benghazi negligence, and
5) Team Hillary's destruction of subpoenaed files, computers, e-mails and cel-phones.

>>>>>ALL<<<<< scream for investigation, and yet have never been seriously investigated.

Compare:
The gun-heavy midnight Seal-Team 6-style raids of Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen and Roger Stone, to allegedly prevent them from destroying evidence.
As compared to Hillary Clinton officials whom the FBI gave free reign for weeks to destroy evidence. Who actually did destroy evidence!
FBI Perjury traps set for Trump officials. Hillary officials never even forced to testify under oath, and then given immunity for providing no evidence or convictions.

The double-standard is just obscene.