I don’t have much to say about Michael Flynn’s plea deal. I’m still content to let the process work its way through. Will the plea deal result in the investigation finding an underlying crime? Stay tuned.
I don’t have much to say about Michael Flynn’s plea deal. I’m still content to let the process work its way through. Will the plea deal result in the investigation finding an underlying crime? Stay tuned.
Rorshach test; there is space to infer everything and nothing.
If they finally settle on charging Trump with violations of the Logan Act, it marks the end of the republic. Every American who’s ever been to the post office in the UK is guilty of violating the Logan Act. To the best of my knowledge no one’s ever been prosecuted under it.
I don’t see them going for the Logan Act since everyone knows that has issues. However, it looks like perjury will be a common charge, and we certainly have precedence as that being a useful charge against political figures.
Steve
I will point out Flynn tried to get immunity from Congress back in March… so it’s hard to figure out what yesterday’s brouhaha implies.
There was Mueller’s rather transparent attempt get Kushner to perjure himself by asking if he had exculpatory information on Flynn on Monday. What that suggests for the investigation overall, again who knows??
I agree – I’m glad the process is proceeding wherever it may lead.
I sort of think a jury might watch some videotapes of Trump campaign people handing over wheelbarrows of money to Russian hackers for maintaining anti-Clinton bots and tinkering with US voter registration files and all-purpose snooping on Democratic National Committee computers, and vote to convict Trump and half a dozen of his crew for violating election laws …
… and that Fox News and Breibart and The Federalist and Gateway Pundit and National Review and all the other regulars will shrug it off and Trump will go back to the White House and happily resume tweeting and the 38-40% of the country that loves Donald Trump will be perfectly content.
Nobody in Trump’s campaign is going to jail for a conviction, nobody’s going to be pay any fines, nobody’s even going to get so much as a traffic ticket. no matter what Robert Mueller does.
Trump would rather die than hand over wheelbarrows of money to anyone.
That would be a Clinton tactic.