The #manafortsentencing has us mad AF. Jay Z and his Tidal goons are the only Hip Hop elitist concerned with social injustice. Paul Manafort is a ruthless Republican. He’s been doing shady business with Donald Trump for years. Cooking the books got him convicted of tax and bank fraud in 2018. Donald Trump got him hot, but don’t worry. He’ll do less time than rapist, Jacob Walter Anderson. Kenneth White, former prosecuter, sounded off.
“The system is set up in two ways to give much harsher sentences for more blue collar property crimes and for drug and violent crimes,” White said. “One way is the laws give mandatory sentences that are much harsher for those types of crimes. It doesn’t tend to give mandatory sentences for what Manafort did.”
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Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, commits bank and tax fraud and gets 47 months. A homeless man, Fate Winslow, helped sell $20 of pot and got life in prison. The words above the Supreme Court say “Equal Justice Under Law”—when will we start acting like it?
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) March 8, 2019
Make no mistake—it is a HUGE deal that Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman is going to prison. Paul Manafort is a criminal who was involved with a criminal operation: the Trump campaign. But we need a political solution. Only we, the people, can hold this president accountable.
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) March 8, 2019
The statement by Paul Manafort’s lawyer after an already lenient sentence — repeating the President’s mantra of no collusion — was no accident. It was a deliberate appeal for a pardon.
One injustice must not follow another.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 8, 2019
“I feel very badly for Paul Manafort,” Pres. Trump says of the sentencing of his former campaign chair.
“But if you notice…the judge said there was no collusion with Russia.” https://t.co/Qv4kmr9is6 pic.twitter.com/UTA92fme0z
— ABC News (@ABC) March 8, 2019
President Cheeto lied again! What Judge Ellis actually said Thursday was that Mr. Manafort was “not before this court for anything having to do with collusion with the Russian government to influence this election.”
Do you know anyone personally, that received less time than Manafort, for a pettier crime? Let us know in the comments below?
