easyt65
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I am NOT defending Flynn and / or NOT saying he is NOT guilty of a crime; however.....
Fired Former FBI Director Comey admittedly leaked classified information to a friend in a successful ploy to get an official investigation on Trump opened and his mentor, Mueller hired as Special Counsel.
Exposed / released evidence shows Comey and his FBI conducted an illegal investigation of Trump at the end of which, according to former FBI Agent Page, the FBI found ZERO evidence of a crime having been committed by Trump or his associates warranting an investigation or Special Counsel appointment.
US AG Loretta Lynch has made public statements claiming Comey lied under oath - Felony Perjury - about what she directed him to do regarding the investigation.
Evidence also shows Comey - along with former US AG Rosenstein, NIA Director Clapper, and CIA Director Brennan - illegally used the known false / unsubstantiated Trump Dossier to commit FISA Court abuses as well as Perjury before Congress (Brennan). These fellow 'conspirators', along with former FBI Counsel Baker, have all made public statements claiming Comey was THE man who made that decision.
Mueller has an extremely 'sordid' past, one that should have prevented him from ever being Special Counsel, one that includes asking a Russian Oligarch to fund an FBI op in 2009, documented evidence of his hiding Russian crimes of extortion/intimidation/bribery of American politicians and nuclear regulatory officials in 2014, having had to answer to a FISA Court about his FBI's 75 FISA Court abuses, knowingly illegally hiding evidence proving 4 men he was attempting to prosecute were innocent and sending them to prison anyway, being former fired FBI Director Comey's mentor - and investigating the man who fired his protégé of possibly doing so illegally, working with DOJ Bruce Ohr and a Trump-hating foreign ex-MI6 spy who was working with the Russians and for the FBI on the unsubstantiated Dossier BEFORE an official investigation on Trump had been opened and BEFORE he was named Special Counsel......
....THAT IS A LOT OF 'CONFLICTS OF INTEREST' / INFORMATION THAT SHOULD HAVE DISQUALIFIED HIM FROM BEING NAMED SPECIAL COUNSEL IN THIS CASE........
Again, don't get me wrong, I am not saying Flynn is not guilty of a crime and does not deserve to go to prison.
I am suggesting, IMO, that Flynn was / is stupid. When questioned by the FBI he obviously panicked. I say that because several FBI agents claimed what Flynn lied about was not even illegal. (Several other FBI agents have opined that in their opinion Flynn never lied.)
In many - most - cases it is not the original crime supposedly committed and that is being investigated that is the leading cause of indictments / convictions - it is the lying that goes on DURING the investigation.
- Michael Flynn, as initially reported, was indicted for lying about something that was not even illegal.
- George Papadopoulos was indicted for lying to the FBI about something that was not illegal - it was about a meeting with one of their own 'plants' they already knew about. (Some people whined about it being a 'Perjury Trap'....which, by definition it was. You ask a question you already know the answer to and see if the person answers truthfully or not. It's sneaky, but it is also effective...and no one is forcing the other person to lie.)
After several years, hundreds of hours, dozens of committee hearings, hundreds of witnesses interviewed, and thousands of documents gone through in their butt-hurt investigations of George Bush (that's right, this - Trump - is NOT the 1st time the Democrats have gone after a Republican President), the only indictment / conviction the Democrats walked away with as justification for THAT 'witch hunt' was the indictment and conviction of SCOOTER LIBBY for 'Lying to the FBI'. (The 'lie' was mis-remembering the actual date / time of something that happened several years earlier.)
IMO, UNLESS HE HAS SOMETHING REALLY 'GOOD' WITH WHICH HE THINKS CAN OVERTURN HIS CONVICTION, Flynn is also an idiot for abandoning a plea deal that allows him to walk away with 'probation'.
IF - for the sake of arguing - Flynn winds up winning and getting charges dropped...he is still BROKE. He / his name is 'tainted' - no one is going to hire him, especially for the kind of big money he is going to want to build back up his 'fortune'. For all intents and purposes he is 'done' - pretty much the same position he was already in if he had kept the plea deal and walked with probation.
If he LOSES...he's screwed! He might just find himself in solitary confinement right next to Manafort on Rikers island.
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