Truth isn't Truth. Crime isn't Crime.

I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. “Justice” took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to “break” - make up stories in order to get a “deal.” Such respect for a brave man!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2018

Manafort was tried in a court of competent jurisdiction based on a defense that the government had failed to prove its case.  Obviously the government proved its case on 8 of 18 counts, earning a mistrial on, mostly, the conspiracy counts.  There is a reason prosecutors bring multiple charges; it's so they win on any one of them.  A jury of his peers weighed Manafort and found him wanting, and he is now a convicted felon.

Is it a witch hunt if they keep catching witches?

A large number of counts, ten, could not even be decided in the Paul Manafort case. Witch Hunt!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2018

Manafort faces more charges, and the government could retry the 10 it failed to get convictions on.  Manafort's criminal liability is really not graded on a sliding scale; like pregnancy, you're a felon, or you aren't.

Manafort is a felon.

Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2018

So Cohen is such a bad lawyer, and got such bad legal advice, that he accepted criminal liability for acts that aren't crimes?  Wow, this Deep State is powerful indeed!*

Or maybe Trump really, really doesn't have a clue:

“When is someone in team Trump going to turn to the president and say, ‘Sir, the emperor is naked and your attorney is drunk?'” [Mika] Brzezinski said. “Like, at what point is someone going to tell the president the truth: ‘The emperor has no clothes and, even worse, his attorney is a runaway beer truck.'”

*If you are curious, this is what Trump is referring to.  The case involved a fine by the FEC, not even allegations of criminal misconduct.