Re # 13:
Flynn’s strategy was very simple and straightforward. Plead guilty to a minor offense, get a guarantee of no incarceration and no prosecution of his son, stop the stress of ongoing litigation and financial bleeding, get a pardon from the President.
His follow-up strategy has been legally incoherent and self-defeating. All the benefits he received by pleading guilty are gone, and all the perils are back, including the possibility of indictment on other charges.
And Powell’s publicity campaigns are only helping Powell to hide her disastrous representation. They are further hurting her client.
Agreed. An attorney’s first duty is to represent the interests of her client.