Trump's DOJ drops case against Trump adviser? Shocking, I tell you. From OP link:
The U.S. attorney reviewing the Flynn case, Jeff Jensen, recommended the move to Attorney General William Barr last week and formalized the recommendation in a document this week. “Through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case,” Jensen said in a statement. “I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed.”
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The decision comes as Barr has increasingly challenged the Russia investigation, saying in a television interview last month that it was started “without any basis.” In February, he overruled a decision by prosecutors in the Roger Stone case in favor of a more lenient recommended sentence for the longtime Trump friend.
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Justice Department officials visited the White House two days later to warn officials that they feared that Flynn was compromised and vulnerable to blackmail by Russia because of his account of what was said on the call. White House officials waited several weeks to oust him from the job, saying they’d concluded that Flynn had lied to them. Flynn pleaded guilty that December, becoming among the first of the president’s aides to admit guilt in Mueller’s investigation. He acknowledged that he lied about his conversations with Kislyak, in which he encourage Russia not to retaliate against the U.S. for sanctions imposed by the Obama administration over election interference.
Yeah, I'm sure that's the right order. I'm sure Trump didn't talk to Barr, who didn't talk to Jensen beforehand. I'm sure Jensen reached this decision after his own personal contientious reflection, and that this wasn't designed to make it look like this wasn't a top-down order. I'm also sure the Trumpists who will cheer this toady behavior on as if it's exoneration would do exactly the same thing, had Obama's AG quashed a case against an Obama adviser.
I'm sure this isn't another distraction from Trump's 70ish days of lying and denying about COVID-19, that got tens of thousands killed who didn't need to. I'm sure it isn't designed just to get Trumpists screaming about deep states and exoneration, even though they too know perfectly well this is no more and no less than a political maneuver: Trump tells Barr to quash the case against Flynn.
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That was all sarcastic, btw.
Not that any of Obama's people went around criming. <-- That was not sarcastic.
Oh, and I'm sure that the people supposedly outraged that Flynn was some forced to lie (Obama deep state? Or his mind control worms from space?) were just as outraged at what they call the "perjury trap" that forced Clinton to lie about a private blowjob, leading to impeachment. <--- Sarcastic again. Naughty me.
