mardi 21 août 2018

Manafort coupable. Et puis après?


Donald Trump affirmait qu'il s'entourerait des meilleurs et qu'il "assécherait le marais" à Washington. Dure journée pour ses anciens collaborateurs. Michael Cohen a plaidé coupable et Paul Manafort a été reconnu coupable par un jury. Que signifie la condamnation de Manafort? À quoi peut-on s'attendre pour la suite? Ces trois journalistes du New York Times précisent les choses.

 "Mr. Manafort’s conviction cannot be diminished by arguing, as Mr. Trump and his coterie are fond of doing, that the misconduct was unrelated to the Trump campaign or Russian “collusion.” On the contrary, the trial evidence included Mr. Manafort’s close ties to pro-Russia forces and his desperate financial straits as he “volunteered” his time for the next president. The trial revealed how willing Mr. Manafort was to corruptly leverage his position of influence over Mr. Trump during the campaign for his own personal benefit. He offered briefings to a pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarch and dangled a position in the Trump administration in front of a banker who provided him a loan for which he would not otherwise have qualified.

 The conviction also shows the caliber of the foe that President Trump is facing as he decides whether or not to sit for an interview with Mr. Mueller focusing on obstruction of justice. While we had already believed that Mr. Trump was unlikely to voluntarily sit for an interview, Tuesday’s verdict makes that interview even less probable. We should now prepare for a potential extended legal battle about the scope and power of a possible Mueller-issued subpoena for the president’s testimony."

  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/opinion/guilty-verdict-paul-manafort.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

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