Prelude or part of it. The charge should not have been brought, but it was. Flynn was a honeypot for Mueller, who took the bait. That's my prediction on how the story winds up.
Simultaneously, as you note, Mueller has no evidence of what he was hired to find. He has to fold up.
Basically, what is happening is that the public mind set is being corrected to "find something on the Trump campaign" instead of the bogus "find something in anytime, on anybody who worked on the Trump campaign" that SC Mueller was running with.
Yep, that sounds right. Flynn was the honeypot and they jumped on it like a honeybee.
Hey, thinking back. Wasn't the whole "Flynn lied" initiated with "Flynn lied to Pence?"
Was this all a setup to put Flynn in place to tell where the bodies are buried on the legal record?
If so, that's some Machiavellian shit right there. Also, if so, my estimation of Mike Pence just gained five points.
FOX suggested, at the time, that General Flynn was made financially kaput, in the red, even his house was in jeopardy, all from paying attorney fees, and that there may have been a trade made for his guilty plea that would spare charges, or further investigation, of Flynn’s loose lipped son, Michael.
Much lately seems to confirm the past.