People don't get convicted and plead guility in a fuckking witch hunt.
The only witch hunt is the one Trump is attempting to pull.
People plead guilty when their wives and daughters are repeatedly raped in front of them. So the world learned during the Spanish inquisition of the 14th century.
Now we have a new Inquisition, with a new Grand Inquisitor. The Inquisitor, true to his office has adopted the methods of that earlier one, so much so that we can only call him Mewler-Torquemada.
When faced with a General that he needed to get Trump, Grand Inquisitor Mewler-Torquemada had a problem, how can you convict an innocent man with no evidence when in fact his own FSB team had illegally surveilled the General?
Our Grand Inquisitor had an idea, have his wife raped in front of him until he confessed! But one of his advisers convinced Mewler-Torquemada to hold off on that for a bit,. So Torquemada said "I know, let's throw his family in prison until he breaks." So the Grand Inquisitor set his FSB goons on the son of General Flynn. "Confess, or you're son goes to prison and your grand children will be sold into slavery (put in foster care)" threatened the evil Inquisitor.
So the General broke to the 14th century terror and torture tactics used by this foul pile of shit, Grand Inquisitor Mewler-Torquemada.