@WoodsDweller

What?

The more interesting question is why Mueller is offering a deal. Manafort obviously wants one, that doesn't take much explanation. This tells us that Manafort has something to offer Mueller, so he knows something incriminating about Trump.

With respect, I disagree. Mueller could be offering a deal for false information, or for information about Trump that has nothing to do with Russia or Russiagate. Mueller could be offering a light sentence, or no sentence, in exchange for false information.

Is that too outlandish, unthinkable, unheard of? So many of our political and agency leaders are connected, one way or another, to crime, money laundering, and terrorism financing, including Robert Mueller.

https://fighting15th.com/2017/08/03/robert-mueller-dirty-cop/

ROBERT MUELLER: DIRTY COP
by Jeffrey Marty
Published August 3, 2017

… HSBC Bank Money Laundering Scandal:

Although it received little coverage in the mainstream media, the HSBC money laundering case reveals the complete and total corruption of federal law enforcement toward the end of Mueller’s term as FBI Director. No case demonstrates how the swamp works better than this one.

For nearly the entire duration of Mueller’s term, UK-based HSBC, an international bank with divisions and depositors worldwide, was doing billions of dollars in business with drug cartels, rouge nations, and even banks associated with terrorism, taking massive deposits made in foreign nations and funneling them into its US banks. The overall amounts were staggering, totaling hundreds of billions of dollars, which likely gave HSBC a comparative advantage over its rivals and greater market share, while providing international criminals with the ability to “launder” money into the US banking system with little-to-no oversight. In 2012, a whistleblower, who collected information and recorded conversations with HSBC employees, provided strong proof to the public that the bank was operating as a “criminal enterprise.”

… Terrorists and Rogue Nations: The bank’s practices also allowed terrorist groups and rogue nations to have access to our financial markets in a similar manner, facilitating financing of their activities inside this country, as well as providing greater international investment possibilities for sanctioned regimes—including $19 billion deposited from Iran into HSBC’s foreign affiliate banks. There were also lax rules for setting up relationships with affiliate banks in other countries, which included a Saudi Arabian bank with ties to funding terrorism.

… While a US citizen sending money to terrorists can result in a 20-year prison sentence, and many US citizens have been sentenced to decades in prison for even marijuana-related crimes, the bank’s executives and employees never spent one day in jail for their roles in assisting terrorist-connected nations and Mexican drug cartels to do business in the United States—an example of the “two systems” of justice than many Americans believe exist between the elites and regular citizens.

If the FBI uses search warrants, recorded transactions, confidential informants, wiretaps, GPS tracking, and conducts a broad sweep of witness interviews in cases involving drug trafficking and terrorism in other cases, why wouldn’t Mueller have done the same to build a case here? Mueller’s absence in the HSBC case says as much about the cover-up as when Holder refused to prosecute over the objections of career prosecutors.

James Comey Joins HSBC’s Board of Directors: Less than two months after the 2012 deferred prosecution agreement, HSBC appointed James Comey to its Board of Directors as head of the Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee.

that the special prosecutor is required to ignore other crimes he discovers while investigating. So there's nothing suspicious about prosecuting Manafort for actual crimes he actually committed, regardless of when he did them.
The more interesting question is why Mueller is offering a deal. Manafort obviously wants one, that doesn't take much explanation. This tells us that Manafort has something to offer Mueller, so he knows something incriminating about Trump.
As soon as Manafort was convicted, Trump went on a Twitter-rampage about pardoning him. Why? Because he doesn't want Manafort to talk.