In the non-crime of collusion?
The FBI’s evidence against the former general could put him in prison for 60 years...
I’m surprised this guy Napolitanp ever had a legal career at all, based on the quality of some of the legal analysis he’s done on Fox over the years.
Sorry Judge Nap, but you are way wrong.
Flynn’s credibility as a witness is completely destroyed now that he’s been convicted specifically for lying. To be trusted again he would need verifiable audio or video evidence that may not even be admissible.
They are telling a man to lie about the President if he wants to save his own skin. The Civil War is almost here people.
Remember Ben Franklin when it comes time to properly end Progressivism: “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
The Logan Act makes it criminal for any unauthorized citizen to negotiate with any foreign power against the interests of the USA.
When Flynn did so, Trump had been elected but not sworn in. That’s the kicker.
Then, Flynn lied to the FBI about those contacts, another crime.
Additionally, Flynn was not registered as a foreign agent, and that’s against the law also, to negotiate on behalf of a foreign power.
The FBI did wiretap a few calls between Flynn and the Russians but there was only very minimal incrimination.
But, Kislyak and other Russians were reporting back to Russia, contacts of a much more substantial nature that were clear violations of the Logan Act, that happened before Trump was sworn in.
So, the FBI figured out that Flynn was meeting with the Russians in person to avoid FBI eavesdropping, that’s what Flynn lied about. Instead of about 4 conversations with the Russians, there were about 30, mostly face to face, no records.
In fact, the Russians agreed to change their tactics at the UN because of an agreement with Flynn and his Trump contacts, before Trump was sworn in, that’s against the law, the Logan Act.
Additionally, Flynn was not registered as a foreign agent, and that’s against the law also, to negotiate on behalf of a foreign power.
Whomever, on the Trump transition team was Flynn’s handler is in big, big trouble. If Trump was told about any of these goings on before he was sworn in, he was obligated to tell the Justice Dept./FBI.
If not, that’s conspiracy and/or obstruction of justice. It may seem petty, because if they had waited just a couple of weeks, all these contacts would have been completely legal.
I’ve said all along that innocence is no defense against a politicized prosecution. It’s naive to think it is. All the prosecutor needs are a couple canaries that will sing. Tweet tweet tweet chirp tweet. And the highest of the mighty can be besmirched and made to fall. This has been known for thousands of years. And this is why I’ve been requesting president trump to please shut this farce of an investigation down If it won’t go after the real criminals ( including imho sorozNazi HilLIARy obammy and pelousy and Debbie the washsreoman) then it needs to be replaced by a new prosecutor that will
The truth of the matter is that Trump firing Gen Flynn for comments to Pence was a huge mistake.
Napolitano seems to get everything wrong. However, it’s possible that Flynn, a guy who was fired because he lied to the Vice President and pleading guilty for lying to the FBI, could make up anything about Trump. And, because this case could not constitutionally go to trial to cross-examine their star witness, the testimony of a proven liar would be the ‘rats case for articles of impeachment.
Napolitano is a moron. As entertaining as Dick Morris, and just as often wrong.
Andy McCarthy says 0 - 5 years. I think the judge is a little wound up.
No!
CROOKED MUELLER, WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT U1? WEREN'T YOU HEAD OF THE FBI WHEN ILLEGAL SHENANIGANS WERE HAPPENING? WHAT DID YOU DO ABOUT THOSE ACTIVITIES CROOKED MUELLER? WHY DID YOU NOT INFORM CONGRESS ABOUT THOSE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES
How the hell did we get here? Well, it was predictable. We are here because Robert Mueller is, was and will continue to be the Deep State’s agent to affect a coup d’etat.
Someone answer me a simple question. Where the hell was the original probable cause to justify this investigation in the first place?
Now, in America, the new standard is this. Dig up some charge, any charge and bring it against your political enemy. Then, call for an investigation even though you don’t have any evidence “at this time.” Better yet, point to denials of wrongdoing as evidence of wrongdoing. Then, investigate and find the crime. Show me the man and I will show you the crime, Stalin used to say. Now, that is the new state of the law in the United States of America.
This was supposed to be about the phony charge of Trump colluding with Russia during the campaign to release e-mails harmful to Hillary Clinton. So we are now here where a member of the Trump transition team was asked to do what every transition team was asked to do before and will be in the future.
Flynn lied and was fired. He has now been charged for that lying because he lied to the FBI. Wonderful, a perjury trap.
But what is most enraging in this is the Mt. Everest criminal activity of those in the Deep State and those in the Clinton machine that will forever go unchallenged. Surveillance and unmasking of private citizens, big deal. A phony dossier, bought and paid for by a political party to justify using the levers of power to spy on the opposition, big deal. Selling a strategic asset for kickbacks, no big deal. I could go on and on.
This is akin to me witnessing a murder, the murderer getting in his car and speeding away. I run across the street to get the license plate number of the murderer. The police show up and arrest me for jay walking because they don’t like my political party. They have no interest in the license plate number because the murderer was a democrat.
This is the criminalization of the opposition. This is a declaration of civil war.
There’s a section of Flynn’s plea deal that says:
“d) Your client acknowledges and understands that, during the course of the cooperation outlined in this Agreement, your client will be interviewed by law enforcement agents and/or Government attorneys. Your client waives any right to have counsel present during these interviews and agrees to meet with law enforcement agents and Government attorneys outside of the presence of counsel.”
Who agrees to meet with Mueller without counsel present?
Impeach Trump for BS and the shooting will start.
This is good news. Napolitano’s never been right about anything.
Fire Mueller and get several Special Counsels to get the evidence on Hillary, all her cronies, Obama and all his cronies, weaponizing the IC, the Unmasking and again, too many crimes, scandals, sedition and treason to mention here. Real Crimes!
“Israel contacted the US president-elect’s transition team after learning that the Obama administration might abstain in a Security Council vote.”
This is the UN vote the Flynn was calling world leaders about
If Trump promised Putin something for help getting elected (quid-pro-quo, ignoring US interests for Trump’s personal success, etc), let’s get it over and move on to President Pence. I’m all for impeachment if it happened.
But we’re 15 or 16 months into multiple investigations (FBI, congress, Mueller). We need to either move into impeachment now, or stop hoping that someone who lied to the FBI may have some information that the FBI was not able to find in a year and a half with at best questionably legal surveillance that may eventually lead to some other information that we have an illegitimate president.
If our FBI REALLY, REALLY, REALLY sucks and cannot tell that the US president is a Russian agent after a year and a half they need to be shut down. If they are competent at any level, we need to move on if this is all they have on the Trump campaign. They cannot claim that both 1) they are competent and 2) investigations need to continue.