Judge’s Surprising Sentence For Manafort Defies Mueller; Infuriates Democrats

Vengeful special counsel Robert Mueller and his pack of partisan prosecutors were dealt a rare rebuke on Thursday when a federal judge rejected their desire to see former Trummp campaign manager Paul Manafort die in prison.

During Manafort’s sentencing hearing, US District Judge T.S. Ellis ignored Mueller’s request for a 24-year maximum sentence and instead gave the 69-year-old a relatively light 47 months with time served following a travesty of a trial process that had nothing to do with Russian collusion and everything to do with pressuring Manafort to roll over and lie about President Trump.

Judge Ellis has previously been critical of Mueller’s operation and last year called out overzealous prosecutors for their despicable treatment of Manfort to get him to “sing” or “compose” to aid their efforts to frame Trump.

Via The Washington Examiner, “Blow to Mueller as Paul Manafort gets under four years in prison”:

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on Thursday for concealing millions of dollars he earned overseas.

The surprisingly light sentence of 47 months is likely to see Manafort, who is 69 years old, released in about three years or less, as it includes nine months of time served. It fell well short of federal sentencing guidelines.

It represented an implicit rebuke to special counsel Robert Mueller, whose prosecutors had called for 19 to 24 years — a range that would probably have led to the long-time GOP consultant dying in jail. Manafort does, however, still face sentencing in a separate case.

Ellis told Manafort that he “stood convicted of very serious crimes.” Seemingly preparing for critiques of the unexpectedly lighter sentence, Ellis said: “I think what I’ve done is sufficiently punitive — and anyone who disagrees should try spending a day in a federal penitentiary. And he’s spending 47 months.”

Mueller’s office has spent weeks arguing against leniency for Manafort in sentencing memo filings. Mueller’s office said Manafort has shown a “lack of remorse” and said Manafort ” blames everyone from the Special Counsel’s Office to his Ukrainian clients for his own criminal choices.” In court, prosecutors continued to insist that “Mr. Manafort did not provide sufficient cooperation to merit any mitigation.” And they reminded the judge that “no one conjured these crimes up” and that “a jury of his peers found him guilty.”

“Mr. Manafort fails to accept responsibility and he remains unremorseful,” prosecutors said.

Manafort may be something of a sleazy operator but the longtime Republican operative is the victim of a political vendetta against Trump that has destroyed lives and run roughshod over the law.

In the process, the extraconstitutional avenger Mueller has trampled such longstanding legal principles as attorney-client privilege and engaged in police state tactics like the pre-dawn raid on Roger Stone’s home carried out by heavily-armed paramilitary goons.

It is damning that not one of the crimes that Manafort was found guilty of had anything to do with the vast Russian conspiracy.

The light sentence enraged many of those whose sadistic tastes for cruelty and punishment over a lost election had them drooling over the idea of Manafort rotting in a prison cell for the rest of his life but hey, inside every Democrat is a fascist screaming to get out.

And what would a day be without the most toxic person in America taking to Twitter to belch up her typical ill-informed opinion:

Manafort isn’t out of the woods yet; a second sentencing awaits and the Judge in this one, Amy Berman is an Obama appointed lackey who has repeatedly carried water for Meuller and who will likely compensate by throwing the book at him.

These are very sick people and their embrace of totalitarianism reprisals for political differences is a very dark period in the nation’s history – hopefully, it will eventually pass.