Imagine this as a scenario:
1) Trump never did anything illegal or unethical with “the Russians.”
2) He fired Flynn for not fully or immediately disclosing a meeting with a Russian. He did that not because the meeting had any intrinsic importance whatsoever but because failure to tell him and Pence about it was important.
3) Mueller comes up with some differing memories about what happened at a particular time and characterizes the differences as an act of lying.
4) Mueller, along with Comey, both known for years to be duplicitous, conniving, power-hungry, treacherous assholes, had worked closely with Hillary to put through the Uranium One deal, even serving as a courier to deliver a sample of the uranium, has been placed by another involved in the Uranium One deal in a position to investigate any dealings Trump may have had with the Russians based on a phony dossier paid for by Hillary through a couple cut-out law firms to Fusion GPS working with Steele and Ukrainians.
5) Mueller has been accumulating around himself at great public expense a giant coterie of Hillary supporters and campaign donors to help him develop something to be used against the one who defeated in a brilliantly humiliating way the woman he was fronting for in the Uranium One deal.
6) He has virtually unlimited power even though he is occupying that position illegally because the one who appointed him do so contrary to statute.
7) He announces he’s charging Manafort for something that has nothing to do with the matter at hand and, given that he is not operating in conformance with the statute, that charging is a violation of law.
8 ) He announces he’s charging Flynn for lying to the FBI over differences in recollection in different interviews at different times and then attempting to use that with dire threats to coerce Flynn into giving him something, anything, to use against Mueller’s partner in Uranium One, Hillary.
So, some questions:
1) If Flynn actually had knowledge of anything illegal Trump had done in some matter the Democrats after the election were claiming happened, why would Trump ever have fired him?
2) If you, as Flynn, knew you were dealing with someone known by you and many others to be a scumbag of the highest order now imbued (though illegally) with unlimited power to screw you over, would you say you would “cooperate” and run out the clock in the hopes that even more of Mueller’s cabal’s perfidy will be revealed, or do you immediately tell him to pound sand?
3) Who, at this point, is actually in more trouble, Flynn, or the one who is, along with his partners in crime, Comey and Hillary, up to his elbows in a huge amount of shady dealings that abused the offices and resources of the federal government they had hoped by this time to completely control?
2) He fired Flynn for not fully or immediately disclosing a meeting with a Russian. He did that not because the meeting had any intrinsic importance whatsoever but because failure to tell him and Pence about it was important.
Now, President Trump WH claims 0bama WH approved and permitted Flynn (whom 0bama fired) to talk to the Russians.
Flynn talks to Russians five times (??) on Dec 29.
How could Flynn “forget/lie” about such a matter, when Flynn knows all calls are taped??