What if the Judge was part of it? I admittedly have nothing to back this up and I will give the benefit of the doubt to the court in what has been a highly irregular case from start to finish, but why has this case dragged on for so long?
Was the goal to punish Flynn or to keep him silent? As long as this continues he is under a gag order by the court. Is that more important to the deep state than their pound of flesh?
What is it that Flynn will say once this gag order is lifted and is that the reason it has dragged on for years? Will Flynn come out and talk about the pressure the special counsel persecutors put on him to make something up about Trump? They did that to Papadopoulus who has said so multiple times.
Was there backchannel communication going on between the Judge and the conspirators? I would have to see evidence of this, but the whole thing is so bizarre and legally tenuous that I cannot dismiss the “conspiracy theory” out of hand.
They could have moved for sentencing long ago, but they didn’t. Why? The only benefits I can see to dragging this out are to keep Flynn silent, preserve the talking point for the left/media, and not deal perhaps the biggest blow to the already eroded credibility of the Mueller investigation.
They know they are not going to “punish” Flynn, but until the case is formally dismissed they can muzzle him. That appears to be the goal and the court now appears to be trying to carry it out with the bizarre legal wrangling (at least until November).
I just learned something important from you. I didn’t know General Flynn was under a gag order!!! I thought he was quiet so as not to irritate the judge and damage his case.
The judge is quite biased. Even Flynn’s defense attorneys before Sidney Powell seemed suspiciously incompetent. Interestingly, Eric Holder, Obama’s AG, is a partner in their law firm:
https://www.cov.com/en/professionals/h/eric-holder
Poor Flynn has been surrounded on all sides by swamp monsters. Thank heaven for Sidney Powell.