ZOMG! Manafort Was Charged With Conspiracy Against the United States and That Is Worse Than Collusion

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If life gives you lemons, you turn them into bullsh** and throw them at people. That is essentially what the progressives and, sort of unsurprisingly, the media are doing in the wake of Paul Manafort’s indictment. As you probably know by now, Manafort was hit with a twelve-count indictment (a lot fewer than I would have guessed) that has its genesis in his lobbying for Ukraine. This is the way Andy McCarthy at National Review describes it:

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On first glance, Mueller’s case, at least in part, seems shaky and overcharged.

This is the part that, along with the Papadopoulos guilty plea, is acting like catnip for progressives and the media:

COUNT ONE
(Conspiracy Against The United States)

There it is. Treason. In black and white.

The SecondMostSlappableFaceOnTheInternetTM weighs in:

You get the picture. What is this notorious conspiracy against the United States, again Andy McCarthy:

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Do not be fooled by the “Conspiracy against the United States” heading on Count One (page 23 of the indictment). This case has nothing to do with what Democrats and the media call “the attack on our democracy” (i.e., the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 election, supposedly in “collusion” with the Trump campaign). Essentially, Manafort and his associate, Richard W. Gates, are charged with (a) conspiring to conceal from the U.S. government about $75 million they made as unregistered foreign agents for Ukraine, years before the 2016 election (mainly, from 2006 through 2014), and (b) a money-laundering conspiracy.

That’s right. The conspiracy against the United States is one based on defrauding the United States of taxes. This is something of a national pastime…until you get caught.

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