…by Ian Greenhalgh and Gordon Duff

Editor’s note:  With Manafort in custody for a few hours anyway, VT provides this background from March 2017 on where this investigation should have gone.  We believe the last thing that should be investigated is Russia and the election when a total mob takeover of the executive branch has been carried out.

We believe that Mueller and Comey orchestrated today’s arrests to push Trump into issuing a pardon for Manafort and Gates, which will not bring Trump down, but which will politically castrate him.

Then we ask, “has Manafort turned” or can he wait out a plea and conviction, assured that Trump will bail him out with a pardon.  This may well be more likely.

We also know that…