(08-12-2018, 09:14 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(08-10-2018, 08:15 PM)mikesez Wrote: Sure, but tax fraud, if discovered, has to be prosecuted. 
Yes part of the motive initially was to get Manafort to flip but it's probably too late for that.  And it may be that Manafort had no evidence to offer against Trump or anyone else.  Once the evidence was collected and presented to him, and he still couldn't or wouldn't give them what they wanted, they had to follow through with the threats to prosecute.  Prosecutors can't make empty threats like that.
Manafort isn't being prosecuted for being Trump's associate.
He's being prosecuted for tax fraud.

You are missing the point of the argument that it doesn't take a special council to prosecute tax fraud.

It's not unusual for investigations to result in ancillary indictments. Face it, Trump surrounded himself with scumbags, including one he put in charge of his presidential campaign. A thorough investigation into Russian activities during the 2016 election turned up criminal activity not related to the original reasons for the investigation. That's not a witch hunt, that's law enforcement.

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