CAN TRUMP'S PRESIDENCY SURVIVE TESTIMONY FROM PAUL MANAFORT?

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In August, in a separate trial in Virginia, a federal jury found Manafort guilty on eight counts of federal tax and banking crimes. He is still awaiting sentencing in that case.

[Before Manafort's current plea deal] President Trump had praised Manafort for not accepting a plea agreement prior to that case, writing on Twitter in August that his former aide was a "brave man" who had "refused to 'break.'"

Eisen, the Obama ethics lawyer, said there is a possibility Manafort will lead prosecutors to Trump -- which many observers, including the presiding judge in Manafort's Virginia trial, have said was the goal of prosecuting Manafort for tax and bank fraud in the first place.

Paul Manafort takes a plea deal that includes cooperation with special counsel Mueller; Corey Lewandowski reacts on 'Fox & Friends.'

"In our profession, those who defend and prosecute criminal matters, you only get a deal like this if you go up the chain," Eisen said. "Who is up the chain from Paul Manafort, who was the chair of the Trump campaign? Don Jr., [political consultant] Roger Stone, the campaign itself, and perhaps ultimately the president. ... I think there’s a substantial possibility that this evidence that Manafort is offering will implicate somebody up the chain."

Eisen called this week a "historic turning point" and a "new chapter" in the Russia probe...

Read More: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/16/president-trump-not-going-to-survive-testimony-by-paul-manafort-former-obama-ethics-czar-predicts.html

Dan Rather made a similar statement on his facebook page -- that Manafort's turn is something very, very new and significant. 

We'll see. When George Papadopoulos only got 14 days for lying to the FBI, I began wondering by what measurement the white collar white men who always wear suits count another white man as being in trouble "bigly" as Trump likes to say.  

Papadopoulos supposedly cooperated with the Russia Probe, but we still don't know what bang the American people got for its plea-bargain buck. I mean...14 days? I was thinking he'd get a reduction in sentence from  something like 15 years to 1 or 2 years for cooperation. A sentence of 14 days in exchange for information was nowhere in my imagination  -- not unless Trump was carted off to prison immediately. 

 We'll see what happens 

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