If Clinton were President would the convictions of Manafort and of Cohen have happened? No.

That makes them pretextual (false use of law) and retaliatory. That makes them violations of Fifth Amendment procedural due process rights and reversible error for appellate court purposes. Cohen likely agreed to not appeal his conviction as standard in a plea agreement. Manafort should ask his current judge, not just to throw out the convictions, but to have the prosecutors pay all his legal costs. Such a sanction should come from their personal assets, and not from government funds.

The prosecutors are unethical, partisan political attack dogs. They are engaging in lawfare against the decision of the real Americans who elected the President.

Putin engages in lawfare. Every successful business is investigated for violations of law and of regulation. If you want to stay out of Russian prison, you give Putin half the business. That method has made Putin the richest man in the world, far richer than Bezos. Putin owns half the major businesses of Russia by his lawfare methods.

We should stop lawfare in the US, and actually criminalize it. Laws are need to have the Manafort and Cohen prosecutors end up in federal prison.