It’s all the rage right now in the media that Paul Manafort has been sentenced to 47 months in prison for bank and tax fraud.<br /><br />Here’s what we know:<br /><br />It says something that the judge refused to imprison Manafort for the two decades that the prosecution requested, calling it excessive.<br /><br /><br /><br />It also says something that none of this had anything to do with Russian collusion in the 2016 election.<br /><br />But regardless of all this, something tells me that after Manafort is in prison for a while, Trump will likely grant him clemency. It probably won’t happen until after he wins or loses in 2020, but I fully expect it to happen.<br /><br />As I’m writing this, I see on MSNBC that Manafort will get 9 months of his sentence already served. So I guess that means it’s really 38 months?
