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    Paul Manafort's lawyers tried to redact a court filing but it didn't work. Oops.

    Marcus Gilmer
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    Mashable•January 8, 2019

    Paul Manafort's defense shot itself in the foot a bit when, in filing Manafort's response to claims made by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, it didn't properly redact sections of the submission — meaning anyone with the document can copy and paste the text underneath the black boxes.

    For instance, on page 9 of the document, using the copy and paste trick, you can see that several blacked out lines actually read:

    Whoops, not great! Twitter sleuths were already collecting all of the not-really-redacted parts to spread across Twitter.

    Those revealed parts show Mueller claims Manafort lied about sharing 2016 polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, who is alleged to have Russian operative ties and has been a main Mueller target, and also discussed a peace plan for Ukraine with Kilimink.

    Pundits and reporters are still trying to untangle everything from the document and what the impact of making this information public will be as it's a rare glimpse into specifics of Mueller's investigations. 

    And, of course, there were jokes at Manafort's and his attorneys' expense. 

    It's only a matter of time until those fake Craigslist job listings to be Manafort's new attorney crop up, so we might as well revel in this ongoing fever dream of incompetence.  

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      Mr_Mojo Risin
      2 hours ago
      Manafort tapped the finest legal scholars from the Rudy Giuliani School of Law at Trump University to represent him.
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      Soybomb315
      2 hours ago
      The guy in charge of Trump's presidential campaign gave internal polling data to Russia....Sounds like collusion
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      Rachel
      1 hour ago
      The real irony is that part of the reason they caught Manafort was because he and Gates couldn't manage to alter a PDF document (to lie on their tax filings) without emailing it back and forth.
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    Mr_Mojo Risin: Manafort tapped the finest legal scholars from the Rudy Giuliani School of Law at Trump University to represent him.

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