Originally Posted by Rochard

The last time a campaign chairman was indicted AND charged was during Watergate. None of the charges mention Trump because they are not against Trump; they are against Manafort and Gates. These are money laundering charges, and very VERY easy to prove in court. Manafort and Gates will be facing serious jail time, and these might result in them going to prison for the rest of their lives. The intention it to put pressure on them to flip on Trump. If they don't flip, or if there was no collusion, they go to prison for the crimes they committed. Best case for Manafort and Gates is for them to tell all they know and make a deal.

We already know there was collusion. A member of Trump's Foreign Policy Committee "magically" met a Russian agent while on vacation in Italy, came back and told the Trump campaign he had met someone who had "dirt" on Clinton, and someone at the Trump Campaign signed off on him and "another person" going to a foreign country to meet this person.

As for the Podesta Group, there seems to be no indication of any wrong doing. They were mention in the indictment only because they did some work for the same group Manafort worked for. Working for this group isn't what Manafort is in trouble for, nor is there any wrong doing involved in working for them. There was a dozen other companies mentioned in the indictment, and oddly enough the only ones the Republicans have latched onto is the Podesta Group.

At this point the Podesta Group does not seem to be under investigation, nor are any of the other companies under investigation. In the event they decide to investigate them, and they discover the Podesta Brothers were making money in Ukraine and then holding it in a bank in Cypress that Russians use to launder money.... Well then, they will be charged and they can go to prison. With the Podesta Brothers there is no "deal" to be made.

Again, I find it amusing that out of the dozen companies mentioned only one is being singled out, and Republicans are acting like they are under investigation. Take a look at the Podesta Brothers and compare them to Manafort. The Podesta Brothers are life long politicians - Do you really think they were laundering money through banks in Cypress?

Of course you had to mention Clinton, because she has zero involvement in any of this. But we should investigate her again just to be sure.