I had hopes of a brilliant plan until I read Powell’s motion papers. Reading her nonsense made me see there was no brilliant plan.
Trump fired Flynn for lying, and it turns out Trump was right and fair, as usual.
Powell has been flying on the wings of the Stevens case (did you know she wrote a book about it Powell reminds us at every turn you can buy?) which was utterly irrelevant to Flynn’s case, but that is something most people would not understand.
The sorry thing is how easily people on our side are bamboozled by anyone who validates our opinions. Our sense of gratitude outweighs our common sense.
Now, I fear, Flynn will do time he did not have to do.
It may turn out that the “brilliant plan” was simply to endlessly delay the entire process until after the Mueller investigation was done, and after the Democrats found another nonexistent reason to impeach President Trump. For the life of me, I can’t imagine why a sentencing hearing on a single inconsequential charge would be delayed for MORE THAN TWO YEARS after the original plea deal.
Trump fired Flynn for lying, and it turns out Trump was right and fair, as usual.
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The sad part of this is that Flynn did not have to lie about his contacts with Russians. So what if he talked to them? He wasn’t plotting or passing secret information. His response should have been, “I’ve discussed politics with them so many times that I can’t recall them all, and I plan to talk to them more.”