Many of you care very deeply about Paul Manafort's trial and neither do I.

But I do think we should understand what's at stake here before turning to admittedly more exciting issues,

like what's for dinner, and whether or not there'll be a director's commentary

on the Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom DVD when it comes out in the fall.

That'd be cool.

Anyway, Manafort was caught in the net of Robert Mueller,

who is appointed special counsel in order to investigate collusion between the Russians and the campaign of Donald Trump.

The charges against Mueller have nothing to do with Russia or Donald Trump,

but they do give journalists the chance to say the words Russia and Donald Trump over and over

in the hopes that someone will think there's a connection between Russia and Donald Trump.

Manafort is charged with violating tax and banking laws and faces a maximum sentence of 305 years in prison.

That means he would be released in the year 2323 or just in time to see the Mueller investigation

come to a close without proving any collusion between the Russians and Donald Trump.

At that point, we should also be able to read the disappointment in the mind of CNN's Chris Cuomo,

whose brain will have been kept alive in a jar as part of a scientific experiment

to find out what Chris Cuomo would have been like if his brain had been alive before they put it in the jar.

Manafort's alleged fraud took place while he was lobbying for the Ukrainians in association with Tony Podesta,

the brother of John Podesta, who headed the Hillary Clinton campaign,

which hired Christopher Steele to get information from the Kremlin,

which was misused by the feds in order to spy on the Trump campaign and metal with the election,

which Robert Mueller is not investigating, because he's only investigating the Russian collusion with Trump instead of, you know, the Russian collusion.

Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Klavin, and this is the Andrew Klavin show.

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