{"id":35902,"date":"2019-03-10T02:32:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T02:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35902"},"modified":"2019-03-10T02:32:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T02:32:55","slug":"blameless-life-really-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35902","title":{"rendered":"‘Blameless life’? Really, judge?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am not going to get too worked up — just yet! <\/em>— over the surprisingly light sentence handed to former Donald Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort.<\/p>\n

The federal judge who sentenced Manafort handed out a 47-month prison term for a guy who’s been convicted of tax fraud, mail fraud and all sorts of conspiracy charges. He bilked the nation out of millions of dollars in taxes.<\/p>\n

But the judge said in his statement that Manafort — prior to getting hooked up with the Trump campaign — had led a “blameless life.”<\/p>\n

A blameless life? Really, judge?<\/p>\n

I guess that is his way of saying that as a “first-time offender,” Manafort was entitled to a federal prison sentence that is significantly briefer than the sentencing guideline that called for an 18- to 25-year term in the slammer.<\/p>\n

I can think of a few “blameless” lives that ended badly for the men who committed heinous crimes. John Wilkes Booth? Timothy McVeigh? Sirhan Sirhan?<\/em> Did any of those individuals turn up on anyone’s radar prior to their commission of heinous crimes?<\/p>\n

So, Paul Manafort gets a nearly four-year prison term for lying and stealing. And, no, I am not equating what Manafort did with murder. I am only suggesting that the “blameless life” rationale doesn’t make sense.<\/p>\n

Well, the former Trump campaign boss ain’t out of the wilderness. He’s got another sentence awaiting him for some more misdeeds he performed on behalf of his friend and former boss.<\/p>\n

Then<\/em> he might get what he deserves.<\/p>\n\n

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I am not going to get too worked up — just yet! — over the surprisingly light sentence handed to former Donald Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The federal judge who sentenced Manafort handed out a 47-month prison term for a guy who’s been convicted of tax fraud, mail fraud and all sorts of … Continue reading ‘Blameless life’? Really, judge?<\/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":[13],"tags":[1424,6506,6499],"class_list":["post-35902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-paul-manafort","tag-trump-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35902","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=35902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35903,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35902\/revisions\/35903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}