It is impossible to be interrogated by the fbi without technically lying.
He is a Democrat and Obama official.
I rest my case.
They caught him in a perjury trap. This is why you never talk to government investigators without an attorney present, if you even talk to them at all.
Don’t Talk to the Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Flynn might say anything. Trump made a mistake trusting him. Fortunately, he was fired quickly.
Thou shalt not cast aspersions upon the Almighty Hellary. This is what Mueller is holding over Flynn’s head. Throw Trump under the bus or your kid will get the full wrath of the FBI.
Flashback - Trump Fires Adviser’s Son From Transition for Spreading Fake News - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/us/politics/michael-flynn-son-trump.html
“President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday fired one of his transition team’s staff members, Michael G. Flynn, the son of Mr. Trump’s choice for national security adviser, for using Twitter to spread a fake news story about Hillary Clinton that led to an armed confrontation in a pizza restaurant in Washington.
The uproar over Mr. Flynn’s Twitter post cast a harsh spotlight on the views that he and his father, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, aired on social media throughout the presidential campaign. Both men have shared fake news stories alleging that Mrs. Clinton committed felonies, and have posted their own Twitter messages that at times have crossed into Islamophobia.”
My explanatio is that he was “snake bit;” that is, ultra-sensitive to the Demonrat charges of collusion with Russia even though it was after the election. I think he feared it would be viewed as a form of collusion, after that fact, even though it was just communication. That’s the only explanation I can come up with.
What else did Flynn do wrong?
Didn’t he neglect to file some form on consulting work so he could say he was working with international companies. Maybe not declaring all of his income properly...
Maybe lie to the FBI looks like a better charge for the Dems to talk about than forms or income so have him plea to it.
Flynn should have used the Hillary method: “I don’t remember. I don’t recall.”
It has been my experience in life that a person tells a lie, because that person is a liar.
Pretty simple.
There are people who will lie as a matter of habit, when the truth would be much simpler. As someone who has inhabited The Swamp for many years, I imagine Flynn is an expert at dissembling, which is another word for lying.
Scooter Libby’d...
$$$$. He’s running low. In his prepared statement to the court, I believe I heard on Rush that he had to sell his house to help pay for all the legal fees into millions of dollars.
It’s not unheard of for someone to plead guilty to something get out from under a runaway prosecution.
He probably didn’t want anyone to know that he talked with the ambassador about sanctions, as that would be like interfering in Obama’s policy, and might make Trump mad if it was not what he was authorized to talk about. So he lied to Pence, and because of that, he lied to the FBI. What he didn’t know was that Obama had illegally unmasked him, and had transcripts of the conversation. As an intelligence guy, he probably should have assumed that.
It is also possible he forgot. He may not have wanted to endure a year long Scooter Libby trial in a DC court on whether he genuinely forgot or was lying.
Because a) he lied about something, b) he did not have the resources, etc. to fight the charges, and c) they threatened to indict his son. So he figured the smartest and safest move was to plead guilty. He was probably right. Why did he lie? In all the fuss over the fake Russian controversy, he probably wanted to minimize his own involvement with the Russians. Not worth lying about, and nothing criminal happened (campaigns routinely have contact with foreign governments), but there it is. The fact that there is no underlying crime is sad but that’s the idiotic way our system works.
The FBI tries to confuse people and talk them into a corner. Why didn’t he have a lawyer?
In my working life, I occasionally came across people who lied about the damnest things. Some of it is based in, knowledge is power. Some of it is a reflexive defensiveness. Some people just lie... apparently for no good reason.
He should never have spoken without a lawyer.
Keep his kid out of jail? it’s how things work in bribe town U.S.A.
Ok, who could he be going after. First he could be adding to Manafort’s case. He could also be going after some people who are not in the White House. That includes Reince and it could mean Trump Jr.
Remember there is no law against talking to the Russians. You have to work with the Russians to win the election by doing something illegal. Talking to them is fine. Telling them to release stolen documents to Wiki-leaks is not.
Offering to the Russians something before you get into government for pay. But nobody has been saying that happened. So its very possible this is all to get Manafort.
That or Flynn is an idiot and was a Clinton/Obama plant all along.
you can read it here. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/01/us/document-Flynn-FBI-Russia.html
No reason to lie about this stuff.
What else, if anything does Mueller have ?
Doesn’t look like anything Flynn can give him touches Pres. Trump.