Influential Twitter users have deeply criticized the sentence over its perceived leniency.
Twitter has lashed out following the sentencing of Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, after he was given a 47-month sentence for tax and bank fraud.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has electrified progressive Democrats on social media in recent months, was unequivocal in her condemnation of the justice system following the sentencing. Legal experts have piled in, denoucing the sentence. Law professor at Harvard Law School, Laurence Tribe, tweeted the sentence was outrageously lenient. "Manafort's 47-month sentence in ED Va is outrageously lenient. Judge Ellis has inexcusably perverted justice and the guidelines. His pretrial comments were a dead giveaway. The DC sentence next week had better be consecutive," he wrote on Twitter.
— Edward Snowden March 8, 2019Edward Snowden compared Manafort’s sentence to the one handed down to former U.S. Army private Chelsea Manning for whistleblowing. “Your sentence derives from your proximity to power,” Snowden, who has claimed asylum in Russia since 2013, wrote on the social media platform.
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