This makes for a very good read, getting in to the weeds of the circumstances around Trump's corrupt DoJ dropping the Flynn prosecution and Don's subsequent pardon of him.
Why the Flynn Pardon Matters
For all the Justice Department’s protestations in the case that it could not prove that Flynn had lied to the FBI and that any false statements were not material, for example, Sullivan states that “Flynn made a series of materially false statements to FBI investigators during an interview at the White House on January 24, 2017 about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador.” He makes clear that notwithstanding Flynn’s subsequent claims about the investigation—claims that have found a gullible audience even in certain respectable circles—“Under oath, Mr. Flynn confirmed that his rights were not violated as a result of the circumstances of his January 24, 2017 interview and the allegations of misconduct against FBI officials.”
He makes clear as well that “many of the government’s reasons for why it has decided to reverse course and seek dismissal in this case appear pretextual, particularly in view of the surrounding circumstances.” As to the government’s claims that it might have difficulty proving Flynn’s statements false or proving that they are material, Judge Sullivan writes that he “finds both stated rationales dubious to say the least, arguably overcoming the strong presumption of regularity that usually attaches to prosecutorial decisions.”
On the materiality of Flynn’s lies, the judge describes the government’s theory as “a newly-minted definition of ‘materiality’ that is more circumscribed that the standard in this Circuit”; he writes that it is “not the law”; and he characterizes the government’s adoption of it as “perplexing,” given the Justice Department’s previous arguments on the same point in the very case at hand. He notes that the government “offers no response as to why it relies on this new, more stringent definition” and does not “direct the Court’s attention to any other case in which it has advanced this highly-constrained interpretation of materiality as applied to a false statements case.” He concludes: “Where, as here, the government justifies its motion by ignoring applicable law to now question the strength of its case, substantial doubt arises about the government’s stated reasons for seeking dismissal.”
It is a harbinger of things to come, and it completes a disturbing fact pattern in which the president used his office’s powers to obstruct justice.
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The straightforward facts, before the RWM spin doctors went to work, are these. Flynn lied to the FBI (and members of the admin) about his contacts with Kislyak, he confessed to telling those lies, plead guilty, the presiding judge set a date for sentencing,
After months of delay, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn now has a sentencing date.
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and then Billy the Bagman stepped in. No doubt at Trump's direction.
Then Mike shows up in the WH war room following Biden's defeat of Trump to recommend to Trump that he impose martial law on the country.
Something The Following would still be apoplectic about if Biden had such a conversation.
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Flynn posted a video of himself taking a QAnon oath this past summer.
The Narrative
