To the Editor:

Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, continues to lie, even after he pled guilty to 175 pages of exceedingly detailed evidence of a multiplicity of federal and state crimes, such as state tax evasion, fraud, money laundering, etc. The inclusion of the enumerated state crimes means that when the Virginia attorney general brings those charges in a state court, Manafort has already agreed under oath that he is guilty.

Manafort was already facing what is effectively a life sentence even if he had cooperated fully. Going fallaciously through the motions of cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller was likely a signal to Trump for a potential pardon. We know now that Trump and Manafort have been in contact to coordinate stories and buy time. 

Having now received Trump’s written responses to queries from the special counsel, Mueller will compare Manafort’s lies to Trump’s anticipated lies. If they match, then Trump is guilty of witness tampering and obstruction. Trump and Manafort have just enough hubris and idiocy to try it.

What a sad day for us all when federal prosecutors can make their case because they can assume without challenge that our president is a liar. 

John Barry

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