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Trump says he’s finished writing answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller

The fly in your ointment is the fact that Flynn was finically crushed and sold his home and could not to afford to defend his only son from the same treatment he had received. So Flynn had the choice to let the prosecutor come after him and his son or to plea to a crime he likely could defend in a long very expensive litigation process but could not afford to do so..
Crime doesn't pay.

You glossed over the detailed notes I took regarding Flynn's multiple lies, the further evidence against him, AND the repeated attempts to cover it up, wanting immunity, planning to plead the 5th.
Everyone of which points to his guilty state of mind.
Contrasted to zero evidence you have given that indicates not only was he innocent, but that he LIED to investigators that he committed the crimes!! Why couldn't you refute all those points? Tinfoil hat time!

The charge would like not have stuck because Flynn was not advised the he was a subject of an investigation before he was questioned and wasn't advised of his rights.
Too bad Flynn didn't have you for counsel!! You'd have surely saved him on a technicality that is irrelevant!

Flynn plead guilty which means NO JUDGE OR JURY has heard his defense and decided if in fact Flynn committed the crime which he was pressured to admit to. He cut the deal to prevent more finical damage and to reduce the chance of a longer sentence if the jury got it wrong. So we just have Andrew Weissmann's word that Flynn lied not a judge or a jury. You know the same Andrew Weissmann that:

Of course he was pressured to admit the truth, what do you think our FBI/DOJ investigators do for a living, pressure people to lose weight and eat healthy?

Claiming he was pressured to LIE, now that is a conspiracy theory for which you have no evidence, and that is a rare bird at the federal level to even suggest.
 
I really believe you are overlooking the magnitude of Manafort's crimes, as well as the parties involved, and the possible connections to Mueller's investigation, which we have no knowledge of as yet.

Possibly but Manafort isn't talking. But we do know NONE of the crimes that he has been convicted of have ANY thing to do with Trump.
 
Crime doesn't pay.

You glossed over the detailed notes I took regarding Flynn's multiple lies, the further evidence against him, AND the repeated attempts to cover it up, wanting immunity, planning to plead the 5th.
Everyone of which points to his guilty state of mind.
Contrasted to zero evidence you have given that indicates not only was he innocent, but that he LIED to investigators that he committed the crimes!! Why couldn't you refute all those points? Tinfoil hat time!


Too bad Flynn didn't have you for counsel!! You'd have surely saved him on a technicality that is irrelevant!



Of course he was pressured to admit the truth, what do you think our FBI/DOJ investigators do for a living, pressure people to lose weight and eat healthy?

Claiming he was pressured to LIE, now that is a conspiracy theory for which you have no evidence, and that is a rare bird at the federal level to even suggest.
No he was pressured to plead guilty to what the unethical prosecutor said he did....that is a BIG difference.

Why did you gloss over Andrew Weismann's long history of prosecutorial abuse.
 
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Also pleading the 5th isn't an admission of guilt. If so there are several Obama Administration Democrats that are guilty.
Most good attorneys recommend taking the 5th instead of risking a perjury trap.
Donald Trump, his former boss: “The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” said Trump in September.”If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
 
No he was pressured to plead guilty to what the unethical prosecutor said he did....that is a BIG difference.
Why did you gloss over Andrew Weismann's long history of prosecutorial abuse.

You're accusing Weissmann of a crime, with zero evidence.
vs

Meanwhile we have a long list of evidence in the public record against Flynn, apparently enough in public AND confidentially, that Flynn believes he could not win in court such that he chose to plea, presumably to a reduced list of charges and for his son not to be indicted. All of that, and he admitted guilt!. Of course, this comes out shortly after Flynn is ousted from the Obama administration because they suspected he as comprised by foreign agents and was behaving erratically. Trump was warned not to use Flynn, but Trump is a dummy, whatchya gonna do?

Keep it up SLC, you're batting zero.
 
Possibly but Manafort isn't talking. But we do know NONE of the crimes that he has been convicted of have ANY thing to do with Trump.

Oh yes he is. That's why Mueller asked for a 10 day delay before giving a report to the judge on the extent of his cooperation.
 
Possibly but Manafort isn't talking. But we do know NONE of the crimes that he has been convicted of have ANY thing to do with Trump.

We know he was in the Trump Tower meeting, where Russian government operatives professed to have dirt on Hillary to give them, and Don Jr, Kushner, and Manafort, all made time to meet them in Trump Tower to discuss it.
It's known to be of importance to Muller's investigation, and they have the most leverage on Manafort.
Manafort is also not believed to have been the architect of the meeting, meaning he's the right choice for leverage not only because he was up to his eyeballs in federal crimes, but he was also not the big fish related to the meeting.

But he's also tied by his close ties and long work with Konstantine Kilimnik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Kilimnik

Through numerous regular email exchanges, Kilimnik conferred with Manafort after Manafort became Donald Trump's campaign manager in April 2016 and requested that Manafort give "private briefings" about the Trump campaign to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire and close ally to Vladimir Putin.[11][19][20] In May 2016 and August 2016, Kilimnik met with Manafort to discuss "unpaid bills" and "current news".[20] Kilimnik was still working for Russian intelligence when, during September and October 2016, he was known to be communicating with the Trump campaign. Both Rick Gates and Paul Manafort were in contact with him at the time.[8] Manafort has said that he and Kilimnik discussed the Democratic National Committee cyber attack and release of emails, now known to be undertaken by Russian hacker groups known as Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear.[16]

Kilimnik and Manafort had been involved in the Pericles Fund together, an unsuccessful business venture financed by Oleg Deripaska.[7] In July 2016, Manafort told Kilimnik to offer Deripaska private information in exchange for resolving multimillion dollar disputes about the venture.[7]

The New York Times reported on August 31, 2018 that an unnamed Russian political operative and a Ukrainian businessman had illegally purchased four tickets to the inauguration of Donald Trump on behalf of Kilimnik. The tickets, valued at $50,000, were purchased with funds that had flowed through a Cypriot bank account. The transaction was facilitated by Sam Patten, an American lobbyist who had related work with Paul Manafort and pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent.[21]
 
I think this still has a ways to go. Mueller seems to have a lot of irons in the fire. They just said that they're not ready to bring Gates up for sentencing because he's still actively cooperating in "several" investigations. Also saw a story from NBC today that Maria Butina (remember her?) may be currently negotiating with the Justice Dept for a plea deal. So Mueller might be about to turn another source.

Well, judging from what you libs have told us from day 1, that Trump was the "target" of all of this, it would stand to reason that once questioned, and satisfied that they have gotten all they can from the President, that it's time to write the final report....Unless, it is like we have been saying, a partisan fishing expedition, with no end as long as Trump is in the WH....Either way, this continuing crap is going to damage liberals should they overplay here....Which I hope they do...
 
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