Rats. The lot of them. Iâm awash in schadenfreude.
I disagree that the triggering factor was the editorial Flynn wrote which was published on election day.
They didnât just plan to extradite Gulen in September of 2016 they discussed kidnapping a US resident and rendering him illegally to Turkey. We know this because Admiral Woolsey was so upset by what he heard in the meeting he allegedly got word to VP Biden.
I believe that when the former director of the CIA reaches out to the current VP that is what started a foreign intelligenceinvestigation.
Eventually on or about December 30th 2016 at another meeting at the 21 Club in NYC, with Woolsey present Flynn was offered $15 million to have Gulen extradited and as soon as dt was sworn in he tried to get it done before being fired.
Worse just last week a Turkish official said the dt administration was looking at this again after being rebuffed by the State Department just last fall.
Now Trump thinks he can hand over this cleric in order to shut up Turkey on the pursuit of MBS financier and murderer and of course BFF of Kushner.
I believe that is why President Obama raised Flynn with Trump just days after the election and warned him not to hire Flynn.
Prison.Rule of Law.
Iâve been wondering why Flynn was going to charge $600k for a kidnapping.
Then I figured it out:
Flynn Intel Group hired law firm Covington and Burling to investigate whether it was obligated to register as a foreign agent
When your business focus is âhelping villains,â you have to automatically add a few hundred thousand dollars to every job to cover the cost of winning the inevitable fight with law enforcement. The standard markup on the black market for power.
It is becoming obvious that the US criminal justice system has been totally distracted by the so called âwar on terrorâ which has left many of our own citizens to greatly enrich themselves while jeopardizing US national Security by selling out to foreign governments including our greatest enemies.
While we can never forget 9/11 and how the Saudis bombed the world trade center and killed over 3,000 Americans, it is high time the FBI and ATF and DOJ start waking up and realize the white Republicans and all their money are NOT PatriotsâŚthey are the 1st to sell out to foreign countries if it means money in their pockets and retaining power in Washington.
Look at McKenzie and companyâŚbasically economic hit men selling America to the highest bidders. Time to start issuing longterm prison sentences for these crimes.
Flynn is getting off way too easyâŚhe should get at least 10 years in prison. Trumpâs lawyer Cohenâs 3 year sentence is a disgrace and diminishes the importance of Mueller. Cohen should get at least 20 years and lose all his ill gotten assets - PERIOD!
What I find most amazing about this is the utter garbage this lobbying campaign is. Seriously, $600000 buys a couple op Ed articles with a few coined expressions about an apple tree? And the use these to build up some sort of campaign on congress critters? This isnât some policy piece written with a legion of writers that extensively footnote, this is midnight drivel on a typewriter.
Next what are these contacts with congress? Was this a double secret handshake of the order of âmy client has paid me a lot of money to come influence you today, so Iâd appreciate that you bring up a bill or talk about this is committee?â Who would fall for this ploy? Or is there money in this $600k eventually for them? Or a wink for future money? Or a wink for a favor?
Letâs ignore this was for a foreign government, subject TO FARA. This is shady if it was a domestic entity doing the same thing.
This swamp reaks.
When the lower-class of the new Republican âeliteâ include a former brain surgeon who sells fake cancer cures, and every one of the talk radio crowd sells quack medicine and the paraphernalia of the medicine man and real estate hustler, of course a real estate hustler got to the top office, and the âelitesâ are nothing but Soldiers of Fortune, swashbuckling swindlers. I miss General Marshall and his protege, General Eisenhower.
Nope. No collusion here.
Love Mueller BUT, he blew it when he let Flynn off scot free. Hope the judge ignores the recommendations of Special Council and sends Flynn to jail!
OT butâŚ
Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump)
A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like
NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all
nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be
tested in courts, canât be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?
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Kidding a president tested in court? (((laughter))). Sorry donnieâŚbaby wanna take his Binky and go home??
So, help me out ereâŚwhere does the collusion come in here?
If trump wants to be treated with any dignity at all he has to act in a dignified manner and the behavior I see is that of a spoiled brat of a child that never reached the maturity of a roach (apologies to roaches everywhere). Like respect, dignity is something that is earnedâŚit isnât automatic. Threatening a comedy show with legal action for kidding him shows monumental insecurity.
Itâs clear from reading the indictment that Flynn is an unindicted co-conspirator. Heâs dodging a potential 15 years in prison in exchange for ratting out his co-conspirators. I suspect that the timing of the release of this indictment is related to all the discussion attempting to minimize Flymmâs wrongdoing.
LOCK HIM UP!
What do you mean, âunindictedâ?
Flynn is not named in the indictment. He is referred to as âPerson Aâ and his consulting firm as âCompany Aâ in the indictment.
Only those indicted are named.
Is this the redacted criminal investigation from the sentencing memo?
Yup. This type always wants more, more, more. The connections he made through his career, and the many legal ways those connections could be traded on for wealth and power, just werenât enough for him. He needed more, and so started shilling for a dictatorial foreign government while fluffing a would-be dictator here at home.
I donât want to hear anything about his former service to this country (itâs probably riddled with bad acts anyway). He threw all of that away.
Corrected. You needed to use the plural form.