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2017-12-01 Home Front: Politix

Former Trump adviser Flynn to plead guilty to lying to FBI

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-01 11:51|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 So when's Shillery's date?

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-12-01 12:20|| 2017-12-01 12:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Key phrases"...during the transition period before Trump’s inauguration." (post-election, right?) -vs- "...to influence the outcome of the 2016 election."

A something burger only to those willing to suspend logic and discount sequential thinking.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-12-01 13:30|| 2017-12-01 13:30|| Front Page Top

#3 What the Flynn Plea Means
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"Understand: If Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador had evinced the existence of a quid pro quo collusion arrangement — that the Trump administration would ease or eliminate sanctions on Russia as a payback for Russia’s cyber-espionage against the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic party — it would have been completely appropriate, even urgently necessary, for the Obama Justice Department to investigate Flynn. But if that had happened, Mueller would not be permitting Flynn to settle the case with a single count of lying to FBI agents. Instead, we would be looking at a major conspiracy indictment, and Flynn would be made to plead to far more serious offenses if he wanted a deal — cooperation in exchange for sentencing leniency. To the contrary, for all the furor, we have a small-potatoes plea in Flynn’s case — just as we did in Papadopoulos’s case, despite extensive “collusion” evidence. Meanwhile, the only major case Mueller has brought, against former Trump-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an associate, has nothing to do with the 2016 election. It is becoming increasingly palpable that, whatever “collusion” means, there was no actionable, conspiratorial complicity by the Trump campaign in the Kremlin’s machinations."

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-12-01 13:35|| 2017-12-01 13:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Was nuclear grade iranium give away involved in the so call influence? Oh... That would be Hillary.

Posted by Cheretle Angeans6218 2017-12-01 14:42|| 2017-12-01 14:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Ahhh, the good old perjury trap.

I've become anti-prosecutors over the years but they keep making it easy.

Posted by AlanC 2017-12-01 15:21|| 2017-12-01 15:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Why would anybody answer verbal questions to any government entity that can invoke a Perjury conviction? Send me questions in writing and I will respond, with the advice of legal counsel, in writing.

Posted by magpie 2017-12-01 15:59|| 2017-12-01 15:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Why would anybody answer verbal questions to any government entity that can invoke a Perjury conviction? Send me questions in writing and I will respond, with the advice of legal counsel, in writing. Posted by magpie

BINGO magpie. Yes, a very bad odor surrounding this one.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-01 16:04|| 2017-12-01 16:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Flynn lied to the FBI? What about all the perjurers I watched during the last admin? I think the real issue was that the Flynn's threatened to reveal pedos in government.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-12-01 17:59|| 2017-12-01 17:59|| Front Page Top

#9 This is actually a pay back from the deep state for Flynn's failure to cooperate with them on stuff when he was at NSA?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-12-01 19:22|| 2017-12-01 19:22|| Front Page Top

#10 White House now says Flynn had approval from Obama admin to talk with the Russian ambassador...

Sounds like Trump and his team set a trap for Mueller and company.

Posted by si vis pacem, para bellum 2017-12-01 20:37|| 2017-12-01 20:37|| Front Page Top

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