Discussion: Lawyers Ask For Flynn To Be Spared Jail Time, Say Lie To FBI 'Uncharacteristic'

Anyone care to show the judge the “ lock her up” chants?

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If he has really set things right, then he should be sentenced to a televised public apology to Ms. Clinton for his “lock her up” antics, to be followed immediately by the actual locking-up of her opponent.

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“Uncharacteristic” in that he normally only lies to people that it isn’t illegal to lie to. Apparently he forgot that lying to federal investigators is a crime, a simple lapse that anyone who habitually lies could have made.

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Most criminals don’t spend the majority of their time committing crimes.

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many of them spend much of their time enjoying the spoils of their crimes and oh - yeah - scheming on how to cover them up. So they’re not ALWAYS criminalating.

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Flynn didn’t lie only to the FBI.

And he didn’t stop lying until he was caught lying.

And he stopped lying, and cooperated, to save his own skin.

I wouldn’t call that a lesson in courage or morality.

I would reserve that type of leniency for someone who approached the FBI uninvited and came clean, just because it was right to come clean.

And then, of course, there’s the hypocrisy…

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My friend once went to jail for 30 days, because she stole food from a Wal-Mart to feed her kids.

Flynn lied to the police to keep his treason secret.

Compare and contrast.

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I’m pretty sure Dylan Roof’s mass church shooting was out of character for him and something he did engage in before. So we should give him leniency because of that?

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You mean Flynn?

And apparently he’s STILL not coming clean…

Flynn’s submission says that he accepts responsibility for the false statements he made to the FBI, ***but it is notably silent about his reasons for doing so and what he was trying to accomplish by misleading the agents.*** https://t.co/U0HyyfBsee @politico

— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) December 12, 2018
One would assume Mueller knows why.
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Oops, thanks!!!

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‘Uncharacteristic’ my @$$, there is a reason why Obama dismissed the bastard. And he has no remorse either, he has been hitting the road speaking in wingnut circles for the past year.

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"devoted his career to his country and taken responsibility for an “uncharacteristic error in judgment.”

You mean by making gobs of money at the expense of the security of the nation he swore to defend, or by taking responsibility by not wanting any jail time or penalties as a consequence of his own actions?

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now, now, the law forbids rich people to steal food from walmart just the way it forbids poor people to. have you ever seen a kardashian convicted for trying to shoplift macaroni? see, they are better than the poors.

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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

Anatole France

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yes, I read that quote when I was a teenager and think about it all the time when r’s start their finger-wagging at the lower middles and poors

and when I think of that quote, i always seen those gustav dore etchings in my mind

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When a felon’s not engaged in his employment…

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