Flynn's Guilty Plea is a Massive Problem for Trump

[C_Clayton_Jones]

“It's…impossible for Trump to dismiss the role Flynn played in his campaign and White House as he did with George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.

The Flynn guilty plea comes from someone who, until the day he was reluctantly fired by Trump as national security adviser, sat at the absolute epicenter of Trumpworld. And, unlike Manafort, Flynn's charge deals directly with his interactions with the Russian ambassador -- and goes to the very core of Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and any possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

In short: The calls are now coming from inside Donald Trump's house.”

Donald Trump has an absolutely massive problem: Michael Flynn's guilty plea - CNNPolitics

As the analysis correctly notes: Trump can no longer try to propagate the ridiculous lie that the Russia investigations are ‘fake news’ or a ‘witch hunt.’

 

[theHawk]

President Trump fired the guy a long time ago after finding out he lied to Pence.

Keep reaching though, it’s entertaining.

 

[Deno]

theHawk is Right...

This is a big fat nothing burger without

fries and a drink...

It was post election Dumb Ass...

 

[JGalt]

Not really.

“Today, Michael Flynn, a former National Security Advisor at the White House for 25 days during the Trump Administration, and a former Obama administration official, entered a guilty plea to a single count of making a false statement to the FBI.

“The false statements involved mirror the false statements to White House officials which resulted in his resignation in February of this year. Nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implicates anyone other than Mr. Flynn. The conclusion of this phase of the Special Counsel’s work demonstrates again that the Special Counsel is moving with all deliberate speed and clears the way for a prompt and reasonable conclusion.”

STATEMENT: POTUS Trump Attorney Ty Cobb Sets The Record Straight After General Flynn's Guilty Plea

Let me translate that for the functionally illiterate liberals among us: In other words, we've pissed away tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer's money for Mueller to come up with some stupid crap that was known for months now.

 

[2aguy]

“It's…impossible for Trump to dismiss the role Flynn played in his campaign and White House as he did with George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.

The Flynn guilty plea comes from someone who, until the day he was reluctantly fired by Trump as national security adviser, sat at the absolute epicenter of Trumpworld. And, unlike Manafort, Flynn's charge deals directly with his interactions with the Russian ambassador -- and goes to the very core of Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and any possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

In short: The calls are now coming from inside Donald Trump's house.”

Donald Trump has an absolutely massive problem: Michael Flynn's guilty plea - CNNPolitics

As the analysis correctly notes: Trump can no longer try to propagate the ridiculous lie that the Russia investigations are ‘fake news’ or a ‘witch hunt.’

You really don't know what you are talking about, do you? Andrew McCarthy, and actual prosecutor stated if you believe a crime has taken place, and you want to move up the food chain, you get a lower level guy to plead guilty to being part of that crime and naming names....that is where you start......Flynn didn't do that, he plead guilty to lying to the FBI, and the Washington Post already did a story months ago that the FBI listened to his phone calls with the Russian Amb. and he didn't do anything wrong.

Please.....do some thinking before you post....there is nothing to this charge....and mueller comes up empty, again.

 

[2aguy]

“It's…impossible for Trump to dismiss the role Flynn played in his campaign and White House as he did with George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government.

The Flynn guilty plea comes from someone who, until the day he was reluctantly fired by Trump as national security adviser, sat at the absolute epicenter of Trumpworld. And, unlike Manafort, Flynn's charge deals directly with his interactions with the Russian ambassador -- and goes to the very core of Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and any possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

In short: The calls are now coming from inside Donald Trump's house.”

Donald Trump has an absolutely massive problem: Michael Flynn's guilty plea - CNNPolitics

As the analysis correctly notes: Trump can no longer try to propagate the ridiculous lie that the Russia investigations are ‘fake news’ or a ‘witch hunt.’

Here is the truth....I know, I know......to you lefties, the truth is like a cross to a vampire...but here it is anyway....

What the Flynn Plea Means

Mueller has charged Flynn with falsely telling FBI agents that he did not ask the ambassador “to refrain from escalating the situation” in response to the sanctions. In being questioned by the agents on January 24, 2017, Flynn also lied when he claimed he could not recall a subsequent conversation with Kislyak, in which the ambassador told Flynn that the Putin regime had “chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of [Flynn’s] request.” 00:45Trump attacks UK's Theresa May over far-right tweets

urthermore, a week before the sanctions were imposed, Flynn had also spoken to Kislyak, asking the ambassador to delay or defeat a vote on a pending United Nations resolution. The criminal information charges that Flynn lied to the FBI by denying both that he’d made this request and that he’d spoken afterward with Kislyak about Russia’s response to it. Thus, in all, four lies are specified in the one count. The potential sentence is zero to five years’ imprisonment. Assuming Flynn cooperates fully with Mueller’s investigators, there will be little, if any, jail time. Obviously, it was wrong of Flynn to give the FBI false information; he could, after all, have simply refused to speak with the agents in the first place. That said, as I argued early this year, it remains unclear why the Obama Justice Department chose to investigate Flynn. There was nothing wrong with the incoming national-security adviser’s having meetings with foreign counterparts or discussing such matters as the sanctions in those meetings. Plus, if the FBI had FISA recordings of Flynn’s conversations with Kislyak, there was no need to ask Flynn what the conversations entailed. Flynn, an early backer of Donald Trump and a fierce critic of Obama’s national-security policies, was generally despised by Obama administration officials. Hence, there has always been cynical suspicion that the decision to interview him was driven by the expectation that he would provide the FBI with an account inconsistent with the recorded conversation — i.e., that Flynn was being set up for prosecution on a process crime.

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Nevertheless, as I explained in connection with George Papadopoulos (who also pled guilty in Mueller’s investigation for lying to the FBI), when a prosecutor has a cooperator who was an accomplice in a major criminal scheme, the cooperator is made to plead guilty to the scheme. This is critical because it proves the existence of the scheme. In his guilty-plea allocution (the part of a plea proceeding in which the defendant admits what he did that makes him guilty), the accomplice explains the scheme and the actions taken by himself and his co-conspirators to carry it out. This goes a long way toward proving the case against all of the subjects of the investigation.

That is not happening in Flynn’s situation. Instead, like Papadopoulos, he is being permitted to plead guilty to a mere process crime. A breaking report from ABC News indicates that Flynn is prepared to testify that Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians — initially to lay the groundwork for mutual efforts against ISIS in Syria. That, however, is exactly the sort of thing the incoming national-security adviser is supposed to do in a transition phase between administrations. If it were part of the basis for a “collusion” case arising out of Russia’s election meddling, then Flynn would not be pleading guilty to a process crime — he’d be pleading guilty to an espionage conspiracy.

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