The jury Thursday morning will begin debating the 18 counts
of tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding foreign bank accounts facing Donald
Trump's former campaign chairman. Manafort has pleaded not guilty to all
charges.
For the first time, jurors will see pictures of the $15,000
ostrich jacket, $18,000 python jacket, and other high-end
clothes Manafort purchased using foreign wire transfers. They will
also debate the testimony of Rick Gates, Manafort's former deputy who admitted
to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars. And they can pour over reams of
emails, tax forms and financial documents that prosecutors say are the
"star witness" in their case.
But the courtroom drama will be nothing compared to the
political earthquake the verdict will bring, regardless of which way it comes
down.
The President has repeatedly called Mueller's investigation
a "witch hunt" that hasn't found evidence of Russian collusion with
his campaign, and Trump's allies in and out of the White House say the special
counsel should wrap things up.
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