December 15, 2018: Judge Jeanine on Fox News Has No Doubt

 

12/15/18: During her evening show, Judge Jeanine Pirro does her Fox News best to bolster a president sagging on a national and international stage. 

Railing against the Mueller investigation, Pirro promises viewers that Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, soon to preside over a sentencing hearing for General Michael T. Flynn, will put Mr. Mueller in his place. “We are in a dark and dangerous place in America tonight,” Pirro opines, “where politics is driving our system of justice, instead of Lady Justice being blind to politics. At its core,” she says of the Flynn case, “this is a story of injustice.” 

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“The rules, the law and the Constitution matter not.” 

Judge Jeanine Pirro, hyperventilating

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With her viewers now thoroughly terrified, she continues. It is our system of justice, she points out, that distinguishes us from other countries. “No one is above our law and no one is beneath it.” 

(In its regular programming, Fox continues to advance the argument that Trump can pardon himself.) 

The people going after General Flynn, Pirro yowls, are “leakers,” “liars,” and they are “corrupt.” 

She’s emphatic. She’s loud. She’s adamant in her position.

 

The real target of investigators, Pirro says, has always been Trump; but Mueller and his bunch are not going to get Trump. In fact, the conversation Flynn had with the Russian ambassador during the transition period – the one he lied about to Vice President Jesus, and the lie which helped get him convicted of a felony, “was legal, perfectly legal. Take that one to the bank.” 

As Pirro paints the picture, the F.B.I. assured Flynn that when they asked to talk, no lawyers were necessary. Just a friendly chat. This, she thunders, was “a clear violation of his constitutional rights.” 

Fortunately, Judge Sullivan had demanded all the documents explaining why Flynn was charged and why he was about to be sentenced. The documents arrived late, Pirro sneered, “incomplete and redacted.” Still, they showed that the Department of Justice and the F.B.I. “hatched a plan” to “deliberately entrap” Flynn. Director James Comey, head of the F.B.I. at the time, was scum. Pirro said Comey “prided himself on what any other decent man of honor would have been horrified to admit, that the rules, the law and the Constitution matter not.” 

Yes, Flynn lied, she admitted. He should have known better. “But what is a lie?” she asked. Did Flynn have “intent” to tell an untruth? He had no reason to lie, she says, pounding her desk to emphasize the point. “Even more compelling,” two F.B.I. agents “who interviewed Flynn say he did not lie!” 

“Quote,” she says, “‘both had the impression at the time that Flynn was not lying and [they] did not think he was lying.’” 

“They even said he was ‘unguarded and friendly,’” Pirro sneered once more. 

The judge sneers a lot.

 

Pirro is pissed; and if she’s doing her job her viewers will be pissed, too. According to the Fox playbook, poor Flynn was a man who served his country for 33 years, an “honorable man.” The opposite of Comey, in other words. “You’re probably asking yourself, why would Flynn even plead guilty to lying, when he wasn’t lying?” Pirro adds. Maybe he pled guilty because he was running out of money, she suggests, noting that he’d had to sell his house to pay his legal fees. Perhaps he pled guilty to protect his son, “also in the crosshairs of these people.” 

“These people!” They made Pirro sick. 

For those of you who think the FBI was just trying to get to the truth, you’re wrong. If they wanted information, if they wanted the truth, they could have shown Flynn his transcript of his conversation to refresh his recollection to get at the truth. But, no, they didn’t want the truth. They wanted to take down a bit player to get to the big player. 

 

But don’t worry, she concluded. They’re not going to get “the big player,” they’re not going to get Donald J. Trump! Even Flynn would be saved! All parties are set to appear in court Tuesday, December 18, in front of Sullivan, “a jurist unafraid of the Swamp, a judge who has a track record of calling out prosecutorial misconduct, a man who does not tolerate injustice or abuse of power [emphasis added].” 

Sullivan “can throw out this guilty plea,” Pirro assures viewers, if he concludes Flynn has been framed. (See: 12/18/18.)

In a skit sometime later, 

Saturday Night Live captured the essence of Judge Pirro.