Manafort's surrender shows Mueller probe's overwhelming force - Politico

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A surprise guilty plea from Trump's former campaign chairman shows that Mueller's high-powered probe has been nearly impossible to resist.
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Friday’s legal action also provided a new window into the size and scope of Mueller’s investigation, underscoring the sheer legal firepower at the former FBI director’s command.

More than 20 members of the special counsel’s investigation team appeared in the second-floor courtroom Friday morning, where lead prosecutors Andrew Weissmann, Greg Andres and Brandon Van Grack were joined by a phalanx of FBI and IRS agents who did significant grunt work preparing for Manafort’s trial on charges of failing to register as a lobbyist for the government of Ukraine several years ago, before he joined Trump’s 2016 campaign.
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After he was done, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson joked that Weissmann had just given “probably the longest and most detailed summary” of charges she had heard in a plea hearing. - Politico

Like shooting fish in a barrel.

Special counsel

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Makes me proud

[Thekaspervote]

3. It does me too! Still some really really good Americans still out there

[peequod]

2. Have you ever seen an industrial meat grinder in action?

It’s a fiercesome thing to watch. Mueller’s legal team is relentlessly shredding Trump’s goon squad, bones, teeth and all. And ole’ Trumpy’s stoopid-long tie is entwined in these gears and has been for a while. I will relish the moment when his pink and hammy face hits those ineluctable gears.

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5. That's a really scary image, but you're right.

The meat grinder has chewed through the legs and body. Only thing left is the head.

[dalton99a]

4. "They are using a series of speaking indictments to, in effect, file their final report."