100 years in prison at least:
FLYNN: "and, you know, we are not going to agree on everything, you know that, but, but I think
that we have a lot of things in common. A lot. And we have to figure out how, how to achieve
those things, you know and, and be smart about it and, uh, uh, keep the temperature down
globally, and here in the United States and over there in Russia."
I have said all along, Trump is an idiot for wanting to keep this controversy alive. He forgot what happened.
Trump fired Flynn for lying to the FBI. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, and with Barr's help changed his mind two years later.
Then there is the phone call itself and its consequences.
In late December 2016, Flynn called Kislyak to argue that Russia should not retaliate against Obama's sanctions, the expulsion of the 35 Russians. The expulsion came in response to a U.S. intelligence assessment that Russian-backed hackers stole information from the Democratic National Committee's email servers and sought to swing the election to Trump.
Later that day, Putin issued a surprise directive: Russia would not respond immediately to the expulsions.
Putin said he take the matter up with Trump's incoming administration.
That was a first for the former KGB colonel. Putin always retaliates. However, in this case his friend would soon become President of the United States.
The next day, the president-elect Trump praised his Russian counterpart for declining to retaliate, “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!” he
tweeted.
There is absolutely no doubt that Trump's campaign advisor and short term NSA interfered in the President's foreign policy with a hostile government.
Why in the world would Trump want to keep that issue alive in the media 3 1/2 years later?