Posted on 08/11/2018 9:07:02 AM PDT by yoe
Studies will someday be done on the deleterious effect Donald Trump has had on the brains of people who loathe him. It drives them to say things that are as palpably foolish as some of the president’s own doozies. This week’s winner: There is no such thing as a “perjury trap.”
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If Trump says "uh" the first time then says "um" the second, they'll proclaim "Trump changes his testimony"
Martha Stewart was a classic example of a Perjury Trap, they couldn’t tie her to insider trading or any of the financial crimes they were going after her, but they got her for answering “no” to a question to the investigators when asked if she had received a phone a call from a certain investment broker. The thing is, the broker had left a voice mail, so she may very well have answered truthfully having never listened to the message. But she did “receive” a phone call and the fact she said “no” was enough to charge and convict her on that alone.
Just say hell NO !
Everything you need to know on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Even when you are innocent and tell the complete truth, anything can happen.
I don't totally agree with McCarthy on this. I do agree that there is such a thing as a "perjury trap," but this term has been defined so broadly that it covers things that really aren't relevant. In the case of Stewart, she was obligated to testify truthfully because she was being questioned about a potential crime. That's not a trap. Neither was it a "perjury trap" when Bill Clinton sat his ass down in front of a grand jury back in the 1990s and lied his ass off.
To me, a "perjury trap" is when a prosecutor or investigating body interrogates a witness in a matter where there isn't even an underlying crime to investigate. That is what makes the whole Mueller-Russia debacle nothing more than a perjury trap for most of the people involved. The evidence of this is that almost every indictment of U.S. citizens by his team involves allegations of lying to the FBI about matters that aren't even criminal in nature.
Dershowitz is clear that if Trump is interviewed, he’ll walk in to a “perjury trap”.
A country in which the perjury trap exists and is allowed to continue is a country in which the government is a fascist dictatorship.
I agree that Flynn was railroaded, but McCarthy completely overlooks an obvious point here (which is surprising because he himself is a former prosecutor).
The FBI had the recordings he describes, but since they were obtained through a FISA counterintelligence warrant they would not be admissible in court for a criminal prosecution. This is why the FBI had to obtain independent evidence of what they already knew from the recording.
I suspect this is why Flynn's sentencing has been delayed at least three times. If the only evidence of his "lying to the FBI" is a recording obtained through a FISA warrant, then that's one thing. But since we're now learning that the FISA warrants to conduct surveillance against people connected to the Trump campaign were obtained illicitly (and maybe fraudulently), then the underlying evidence against Flynn is tainted and he has all the legal standing he needs to vacate his plea deal. I'm sure Mueller knows this, too -- which is why Flynn hasn't been sentenced.
We have this thing called the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that allows people to refuse to testify in any of the proceedings described here in this article.
Martha Stewart wouldn't have spent two second in prison if she had simply kept her mouth shut.
A country in which the perjury trap exists and is allowed to continue is a country in which the government is a fascist dictatorship.
Why can’t Flynn see the evidence that implicates him? That includes all unredacted FISA documents and communications.
I have been on the receiving end of a very small version of what Martha Stewart went through. When you are accused of something you are at first feeling shock as to what people are saying about you. You naturally pause trying to figure out what the hell is happening. Do you say something or do you stay quiet? You know that you are going to look guilty no matter what you do or say. But that pause caused by the shock of what is being said about you is what does people in. It makes you appear as if you have something to hide and that you are indeed guilty. All Martha could do was call a lawyer.
Liz.....not to correct you, but her felonies ARE Documented.....she’s an UNINDICTED felon.
That’s about the size of it.
“A country in which the perjury trap exists and is allowed to continue is a country in which the government is a fascist dictatorship.”
Indeed it is.
Do you think it's just a coincidence that Flynn just took a job with a D.C.-based consulting firm last month? That doesn't sound like an arrangement where anyone thinks there's a chance in hell he's going to face any harsh penalties at all, does it?
I would like to see more people in the DOJ lose their jobs.
Maybe even be prosecuted for their actions to deprive civil rights under color of law.
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