Posted on 12/14/2018 12:31:21 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday rebuked former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for suggesting that FBI agents had duped him into lying about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
“Nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted caused the defendant to make false statements to the FBI on January 24,” Mueller wrote in a filing Friday afternoon, asking a federal judge to reject Flynn’s attempt to “minimize the seriousness of those false statements to the FBI.”
“The defendant chose to make false statements about his communications with the Russian ambassador weeks before the FBI interview, when he lied about that topic to the media, the incoming Vice President, and other members of the Presidential Transition Team,” Mueller wrote.
“When faced with the FBI’s question on January 24, during an interview that was voluntary and cordial, the defendant repeated the same false statements,” he continued. “The Court should reject the defendant’s attempt to minimize the seriousness of those false statements to the FBI.”
Mueller was responding to a filing from Flynn’s attorneys earlier this week that requested he be spared jail time.
The filing also suggested he had been tricked by the FBI into lying to agents in his January 2017 interview, which has fed the theory among conservatives that Flynn had been wrongly led to commit a crime.
Flynn is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 18. Mueller has asked U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to impose a lenient sentence, citing Flynn’s “substantial assistance” in the ongoing investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.
“The defendant chose to make false statements about his communications with the Russian ambassador weeks before the FBI interview, when he lied about that topic to the media, the incoming Vice President, and other members of the Presidential Transition Team,” Mueller wrote.
So, Muleface, your buddy Comey still set him up. Why else would he care about a purported lie to the media? You and your gang of thugs should be swinging from a tree
The problem with Flynn is that he was so afraid of the Democrats and neocons that he perceived a need to lie about his contacts with Russians. He should have told them, “I talked to the Russian ambassador about political issues and will do so again.”
Comey saw an opportunity to turn a lie to the media into a lie to the FBI. Thus the trap.
Washington is all about lies. Some are more equal than others.
Mueller loses by speaking directly. F Mueller. The deep state hack. He is a vengeful robot, he is so senile he does not know why he destroys lives. Hopefully Mueller et al get blown out of the water very soon.
dittos!
Under duress.
Between Mueller and Flynn I believe that one of them is irredeemably corrupt. Hint: it ain’t the general.
Flynn simply did not give the correct answer to a question at a time when he had no idea he was being graded on the questioner or that the questioning was a deliberate attempt to catch in a perjury trap
and start the arrests and prosecutions of Mueller and his band of 17,of Hillary and her band of illegal emailers, of Comey and Lynch for obstructing the prosecution of Hillary, of Hussein Obama's involvement in the obstruction of justice....
The list of criminals from the Hussein Obama years is very long.
This is much worse than anything Flynn has been accused of
That’s fine, nobody induced Flynn to make false statements. Nobody was looking out for his rights, either. You skunk.
BUT SOMEBODY induced the regeneration of the interview 302 by Mueller et al in August 2017, you skunk.
So the comparison is not only moot, it’s deliberately deceptive.
Anyone know how Mueller and Comey get around the fact that Flynn was not read his Miranda rights?
It is normal for a judge to dismiss a case when that happens.
Muelller did not fully comply with the order of the judge. All bets are off at sentencing. Muelller and Co. may be next under investigation.
Fine. But who the hell is going to hold him accountable?
I have yet to see anyone reign him in.
Muelller is implicated in having protected the Clinton Crime family and was tasked by Deep State Inc. to cover up the Obama and Clinton crimes and to take down outsider Trump.
Fortunately for America POTUS DJT is the real Teflon Don. He’s bullet proof.
Yes; turns out “the 302” isn’t the one from the initial questioning (which maybe they didn’t even FILE one), it was a 302 from when Stryok was interviewed ABOUT the interview.
Is that good enough for the Judge? Is the Judge excepting that?
F lying mueller!
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