everyone with any sense could see that Manafort was going to go down with all his shady Russian dealings and the fact they raided his home. Stevie Wonder could see that one coming. Trumpettes have positioned themselves to claim that any Manafort crime was committed before he was campaign manager (despite the fact that the indictment says his conspiracy had continued through his campaign stint. Therefore the campaign was clean. But Papadopoulas? A stroke of genius. Everything he's lied about is apparently related to what he saw in the campaign. Mueller cut the nuts of the Trumpettes' argument. Dam cracking wingnuts!