{"id":32363,"date":"2018-09-17T00:24:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T00:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32363"},"modified":"2018-09-17T00:24:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T00:24:29","slug":"manafort-holds-one-of-the-keys-to-trump-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32363","title":{"rendered":"Manafort holds one of the keys to Trump survival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let’s concede Norm Eisen’s partisan leaning: He served as ethics chief for President Barack H. Obama.<\/p>\n

So, when he predicts that Donald J. Trump “won’t survive” whatever his former campaign chairman tells special counsel Robert Mueller, it is good to take it with a bit of a grain of salt.<\/p>\n

However … the man might know something the rest of us don’t know.<\/p>\n

Will the president survive?<\/a><\/p>\n

Manafort has agreed to cooperate with Mueller after pleading guilty to two felony counts; he’s already been convicted of eight felony charges and faces a lengthy prison term.<\/p>\n

Manafort is near the top of the Trump campaign’s chain of command. There ain’t much room between him and the very top 00 which would be Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Manafort is reportedly planning to talk — if he hasn’t already — to Mueller’s legal eagles who are trying to determine whether the Trump campaign “colluded” with Russians who attacked our electoral system in 2016.<\/p>\n

Mueller’s probe is a wide-ranging — but totally legal and appropriate — examination of this troublesome issue.<\/p>\n

He’s already reeled in some big fish. He’s gotten guilty pleas and has persuaded some big campaign hitters to cooperate with his probe.<\/p>\n

Manafort clearly is the biggest fish to date.<\/p>\n

Sure, the White House says it has “nothing to fear” from a Manafort guilty plea. You expect that kind of thing from the White House and from those associated with the president. They, too, are partisans.<\/p>\n

Given my own bias, though, I’m going to go with Norm Eisen’s view that Trump might not “survive” whatever Manafort spills to Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n\n

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Let’s concede Norm Eisen’s partisan leaning: He served as ethics chief for President Barack H. Obama. So, when he predicts that Donald J. Trump “won’t survive” whatever his former campaign chairman tells special counsel Robert Mueller, it is good to take it with a bit of a grain of salt. However … the man might … Continue reading Manafort holds one of the keys to Trump survival<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7928],"tags":[1424,6506,3983,7093],"class_list":["post-32363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-paul-manafort","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32365,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32363\/revisions\/32365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}