December 1-2, 2017: White House Labels General Flynn a "Former Obama Administration Official."

 

December 1, 2017: General Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I. and agrees to become a cooperating witness in the Mueller investigation. 

 

Court documents show Flynn lied repeatedly. 

Trump immediately announces that this proves he never colluded with Russians, grabbed women by the pussy, failed in the casino business or cheated on all three wives. On Fox News, every host agrees with his assessment. Sean Hannity insists Trump won the Medal of Honor in Vietnam. 

Court documents show Flynn lied repeatedly about a variety of matters. Also, the plea deal immunizes him only in regard to matters therein mentioned (which this dimwitted blogger just learned is how plea deals work). There are all kinds of matters left out and still hanging over “Old Lock Her Up” Flynn’s head. Nothing, for example, is said of his agreement to help the Turkish government kidnap a dissident living in Pennsylvania and return him to Turkey for trial. In return for such efforts Flynn (and his son) were to be paid more than $530,000. 

That would mean Flynn and Flynn 2.0 were working for the Turks, even against U.S. interests.

General Flynn has a court date.

The White House tries to make it sound like Obama did it. 

In a press release after Flynn’s plea deal is announced, he is described as “a former Obama administration official.”

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12/2/17: President Trump has a bad weekend as he begins to feel the heat. What is Flynn about to say? 

Trump turns to Twitter to defend himself with all the logic you can pack into 560 characters (Twitter doubled the maximum length of posts to 280 characters a few days ago; and Trump tweets twice). First, we have: “So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday ‘interrogation’ with no swearing in and no recording, lies many times...and nothing happens to her? Rigged system, or just a double standard?” 

Second: “Many people in our Country are asking what the ‘Justice’ Department is going to do about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress, deleted and ‘acid washed’ 33,000 Emails? No justice!” 

In other words, Trump fans, you can no longer trust the F.B.I. You cannot expect justice from the Department of “Justice.” 

You may only trust in Donald J. Trump. 

And God? 

No, not Him, either. Only Trump. (See also: 12/15/17.)

December 14, 2018: Gen. Flynn's Lawyers Insist FBI Tricked Him into Lying - Even Though He Was Already Lying to VP Pence

 

12/14/18: With this president and with this miscreant crew, there’s always more legal news to be discussed. And Special Counsel Mueller has been making plenty. Last Thursday, lawyers for General Flynn filed court papers insisting that even though their client had pled guilty to one charge of lying to the F.B.I. he hadn’t really been lying. 

 

Trump tweets support for lying to the F.B.I. 

Flynn, his lawyers insisted, had been tricked into lying when F.B.I. agents interviewed him about contacts with Russians during the 2016 campaign. Flynn, they said, did not know it was a crime to lie to F.B.I. agents. 

Naturally, Trump’s radar ears picked up the news and he had to tweet support for lying, which was not, apparently, lying: 

They [prosecutors] gave General Flynn a great deal because they were embarrassed by the way he was treated - the FBI said he didn’t lie and they [Mueller’s team] overrode the FBI. They want to scare everybody into making up stories that are not true by catching them in the smallest of misstatements. Sad!...... 

 

On Friday Mueller’s team filed a blistering rebuttal. Prosecutors pointed out that Flynn lied to Vice President Pence and several White House officials about this matter – secret contacts with Russians – long before he talked to agents from the F.B.I. 

Flynn was heavily to that set of lies when he first met with federal agents. He couldn’t turn back and keep his position. They didn’t need to “trick” him into repeating those falsehoods. He had no choice – save honor. 

Flynn lied multiple times during multiple interviews (see: 12/6/18). Investigators pointed out that the general had covered up the fact he had received more than half a million dollars from the government of Turkey. They noted that he agreed to plead guilty to one felony because his son was implicated in the money-making scheme. They added that both father and son had failed to report such income, and that this was the best deal the father could expect, when he knew he might have been charged with a half-dozen serious crimes.

Gen. Flynn was tricked into moving his lips.