Dershowitz: Manafort 'Knows Where the Bodies are Buried"

By Sandy Fitzgerald / NEWSMAX

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The charges filed against President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, "apparently has nothing to do with Trump," but will be used as leverage toward the president and his campaign, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Monday, as Manafort "knows where the bodies are buried."

"It's all about leverage," Dershowitz told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" program. "They're going after Manafort on something that apparently has nothing to do with Trump, years ago, his own business."
 
"The one thing is the Trump people did move quick to get rid of Manafort once his European ties came up," Fox News' Brian Kilmeade pointed out, recalling Manafort's firing during the campaign.

"That will help Trump distance himself," said Dershowitz. "But Manafort knows where the bodies are buried. He was an intimate, and if anything wrong happened in the campaign, and there's no evidence anything did, Manafort would know about it, even if he wasn't directly there, he would have hear 

But, said Dershowitz, federal officials will use those charges to push for information about Trump and whether his campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

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