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"If I advise them to follow Hillary Clinton’s lead, delete all your emails and then acid wash the emails and hard drives on your phones," he said. "Then take your phones and bash them with a hammer into little itsy-bitsy pieces, use BleachBit, remove the SIM cards and then take the pieces and hand it over to Robert Muller and say, 'Hillary Rodham Clinton. This is equal justice under the law.'"
Allegedly, a federally indicted former Trump adviser tried to do this.
Donald J. Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort now sits in federal time out while he awaits trial. He is facing multiple indictments for his foreign ties to the Russian Federation.
He was indicted on Monday for witness tampering and violating his terms of in house. Manafort was sent to the federal time out today.
He is one of the many figures indicted by federal prosecutors in the probe into Russia meddling in the presidential election.
Manafort was hoping to stay out the iron college. He had his get out free card revoked.
Manafort used burner phones, apps and tried to wipe away information.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's office convinced a federal judge on Friday to revoke the bail of President Donald Trump's former campaign chief after he was accused of witness tampering.
"I cannot turn a blind eye to this," Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in a Washington courtroom, explaining that she could not just release Manafort with more restrictions.
"This isn’t middle school, I can’t take your phone," Jackson said.
Manafort, 69, did not appear to react to the ruling beyond a nod to his attorney. He was immediately taken into custody and walked into a hallway behind the courtroom. He gave a quick wave to his wife as he disappeared from sight.
He will remain in pretrial detention until a trial in September on charges that include conspiracy and money laundering; he also faces a separate trial in Virginia.
The move drastically ratchets up pressure on Manafort as Mueller continues to investigate whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. His ex-business partner, Rick Gates, who was indicted with him in October, has already pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate.
After Jackson's ruling, Trump tweeted that Manafort got a "tough sentence" — though he hasn't actually been sentenced for anything — and tried to downplay his involvement with the campaign.
Trump downplayed this as a distraction. He said what about James Comey and Hillary Clinton.
Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort, who has represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns. Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2018
I’ve had to beat 17 very talented people including the Bush Dynasty, then I had to beat the Clinton Dynasty, and now I have to beat a phony Witch Hunt and all of the dishonest people covered in the IG Report...and never forget the Fake News Media. It never ends!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2018
No word on whether Fox News will deal with him or his mistress Sara A. Carter.
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