GeorgiAg said:
Russia turned out to be a nothingburger but to suggest the government agents who looked into it need to be prosecuted for even looking into it is ridiculous.
Manafort worked as Trump's unpaid campaign chairman last year from March until August, a period that included the Republican National Convention that nominated Trump in July. Trump asked Manafort to resign after AP revealed that he had orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation until 2014 on behalf of Ukraine's ruling pro-Russian political party.
The newly obtained business records link Manafort more directly to Putin's interests in the region. According to those records and people with direct knowledge of Manafort's work for Deripaska, Manafort made plans to open an office in Moscow, and at least some of his work in Ukraine was directed by Deripaska, not local political interests there. The Moscow office never opened.
https://apnews.com/article/122ae0b5848345faa88108a03de40c5a
None of the alleged actions constirute a crime. Russia collision wasn't a nothing burger, it was an attempted coup from the very beginning and the FBI agents who investigated it knew that.
Manafort's crimes were FARA violations for which the Podesta brothers were also guilty at the same time for other Ukrainian actors but they were notified and allowed to retroactively file FARA documentswhile Manafort was prosecuted in a totally unpredented way. Neither the resources applied to the investigationnor the sentence had ever been done before for FARA violations. This was all in the 2014 and prior "pre-escalator" time frame.
The Mueller gang accusations that Manafort continued to have contact with the Trump campaign after he resigned as chairman and that he was close to people in Putins orbit are allegations of a non-crime. If everything they insinuate was true, nothing is criminal except that Manafort walked into a perjury trap, the same technique that they used on Mike Flynn.
So yeah, they need to spend a few decades in Supermax and get to know Terry Nichols, Zacarias Moussaoui, Eric Rudolph, Richard Reid, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on a personal level becausethey are the same level of scum. They are the closest thing to Gestapo that has ever operated in the United States since the Revolution.