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| Mike Flynn Names Mueller Critic Sidney Powell As New Attorney. Will He Withdraw His Guilty Plea? |
| 2019-06-13 |
| [Hot Air] "He is going to continue to cooperate with the government, pursuant to his plea agreement," said Powell today in an interview with The Hill about her new client after the news broke. But why would Flynn hire Sidney Powell if he intends to keep cooperating? She’s been harshly anti-Mueller for months and a critic of former Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann for years, having written an entire book about her experience opposing him in the Enron case. (Powell herself describes Weissmann as the book’s "lead villain.") She created a website awhile back about Team Mueller called "Creeps on a Mission" in which she accused them of angling "to destabilize and destroy this President" before Mueller ultimately declined to accuse Trump of either conspiracy or obstruction. Both her book and a t-shirt are available for sale at the site. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Mr. Trump has had the same problem hiring people as president as he had as a candidate: so many of the qualified people from both parties refused to work with him. So he’s ended up with more fringe characters than his predecessors and competitors. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-06-13 18:26 |
| #5 Flynn had an honorable career with the military. Upon retirement he established the Flynn Intel Group, Inc. He was a registered foreign agent. His group had substantial revenue including from from the Russians and Erdogan's Turks. My sympathy for the guy is limited. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-06-13 16:36 |
| #4 I think there's an optimization selection process in play M. He's choosing his battles when he can. "What's the greatest upset, affecting positively the most voters, with the least engagement of other offices I can achieve, that will snowball under it's own critical mass to a desired conclusion." Rebuild the FBI? Sure but that really doesn't affect you and me. Break the international Deep State intelligence alliance? Why not, that will slow roll thru Mueller and the AG until the election. Mideast oil? Let's build a pipeline from Canada and cut their sales by half. Torpedoed tankers? They deliver to other markets. China in South America/South Pacific? Hit their manufacturing. Make their products price comparable with items manufactured here. Iran with a bomb? Not a current problem. We can bomb them to shit before they launch. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-06-13 13:41 |
| #3 It would be great fun to find out some day all the problematic people Trump has allowed around his administration was not 4-D or 5-D but 27-D chess. But Occams Razor says it's just sloppiness that couda should wouda been avoided if 2-D chess was in play. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-06-13 13:14 |
| #2 Flynn is a Democrat who worked on the Trump campaign. I never quite understood that. He hired a lobbying law firm Covington & Burling LLP to represent him. This is Eric Holder's, Lanny Breuer's (Fast and Furious), John Boltons firm. The only reason for Flynn hiring Covington & Burling LLP is that they are well-connected and understand Washington ways. I wondered whether Covington & Burling LLP would well-serve Flynn at the time he hired them. Maybe Sidney Powell will better represent him. She certainly doesn't seem to have much respect for the Mueller proctology probe of Flynn and Trump. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-06-13 10:34 |
| #1 Mueller was chosen to fail. When the Flynn plea deal collapses, the left will hold it up as proof that a new special counsel must be appointed to start at square one. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-06-13 07:00 |