Flynn’s New Lawyer Asked Barr Directly To Throw Out Flynn’s Case | Talking Points Memo

Before she had officially notified the court that she was taking up Michael Flynn’s defense, Flynn attorney Sidney Powell wrote to Attorney General Bill Barr in June asking that he throw out Flynn’s prosecution.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1252829

Screw that noise. Flog the bastard! Then lock him up for life.

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I think you’re about to have a new mailing address for a while, Mr. Flynn.

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Can I get a LOCK HIM UP!

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You’re kinder than I am.

I am of the mind that the traitor should be executed, with extreme prejudice.

Mueller was far too lenient on the asshole, and for what? Nothing he offered up as “cooperation” amounted to anything.

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They really are this bad.
They really are this bad.
They really are this bad.

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The campaign to change history by discrediting Mueller Report or manufacturing evidence of wrong doing of the Bidens or saying the ‘black ledger’ that revealed Manafort’s corruption was fake or pushing the conspiracy theory of DNC server location in Ukraine…all these really adds up to…REVISIONISM to appease Putin, lift Russian sanction and for Extortionist-In-Chief to avoid jail time!

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This is part and parcel of everything else we’re seeing as their strategery. The focus has almost exclusively been that the Mueller investigation was corrupt in its origins. This woman was hired by Flynn and the GOP/Trump KKKult to try to prove that the Mueller investigation itself was corrupt in its conduct.

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They are exponentially worse, depending on what it takes to keep out of jail and maintain Trump in the Oval Office.

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Everybody gets a Roy Cohn!

Just staggering levels of malevolence to the rule of law.

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Powell is working extra hard to make sure that Flynn does a long stretch in the Crowbar Hotel.

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The judge should have sentenced him ages ago. Time to stop wasting time and for Flynn to start serving his jail sentence.

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At this point, the Federal Judiciary needs to start sanctioning the Trumpie’s lawyers under Rule 11. Fine them, and make them report the fine to their state bar associations. Only doing so will get this to stop.

Because these cases are political, judges are being careful. But only personal sanctions - for making frivolous and untrue arguments - will have a salutatory effect.

P.s. one GW Bush appointee is getting P.O.ed and may start taking action: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/fbi/463870-judge-tells-justice-dept-to-charge-mccabe-or-drop-investigation

or better yet: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/judge-to-doj-decide-on-charging-andrew-mccabe-by-nov-15-or-face-release-of-fbi-records/2019/10/01/3e169168-e3c4-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html

More judges need to follow his lead.

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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Waaaaaaaaaaaah!!! They won’t cover our baselesss conspiracy theories as equal to demonstrable high crimes and misdemeanors by a sitting POTUS!!! WAAAAAAAAA!

And Sweizer? Talk about the posterchild for just how fucking ridiculous the Hoover Institute is…

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And if you think they won’t get worse than this , you suffer from lack of imagination

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It certainly appears Barr did not respond positively to the request in this letter, but I still want to know if he corresponded back with her. If so, what exactly did he state in his letter.

And, I wonder, with his busy travel schedule, if the letter found him in Ukraine, Italy, Great Britain, Australia, or some other country we haven’t learned of yet.

Barr has his fingers in enough corruption pies. I suppose he just may not have had time for this one.

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OK, so this is how much fucking stupid we’re trying to wade through…

THERE’S A FUCKING TRANSCRIPT AND HE ADMITTED IT!!! WTF!!!

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I said this quite a few days ago and got lambasted that the RW would keep Biden’s name in this over and over. But that wasn’t my point…regular media seemed to be mentioning Bidens less and less. They cover the Ukraine scandal, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear the Bidens mentioned salaciously was decreasing.

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Somewhere in the Cosmos George Orwell is either laughing his head off, or crying, or both. In any case, his message is the same, “I warned you . . . I warned you that this could happen.”

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In fairness, this is the first Minority “Leader” Kevin McCarthy is hearing of it too.

His cluelessness was so bad on 60 Minutes, I almost cringed for him. But I’m made of sterner stuff, so I had another good long laugh instead.

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