Flynn was a member of the Trump team for a remarkably short time. He himself has committed some serious errors of omission with regards disclosing earnings from some of the goofy lobbying things he was engaged in prior to becoming an official member of TrumpCo. Those omissions are IMO going to be his undoing because they constitute false statements and Mueller undoubtedly has him dead to rights. He’s an easy target on those and is going to be smacked.
That said, my impression; and it is only that, is that Flynn is no kind of traitor, he’s someone looking to make money from his contacts by giving interviews (yes, in some cases on Russian TV) and by staying close to his top-level intelligence contacts. I think he’s generally a pretty smart guy with a good sense of things but was remarkably absentminded when it came to disclosures. I’m certainly willing to be proven wrong.
There is going to be an assiduous effort on Mueller’s part to conflate Flynns activities before the election into the collusion zone but I seriously doubt there’s any *there* there. Mueller is under some pressure to come up with SOMEthing and no doubt Manafort and Flynn are the easiest targets.
Excellent summary. Flynn may have just been uninformed or sloppy. Manafort has no excuse for reporting violations. He’s been in the business way to long to plead ignorance.