Report: DOJ Is Dropping Case Against Flynn | Talking Points Memo

discobot · May 7, 2020, 6:35pm

The Justice Department is dropping its case against former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, the AP reported Thursday.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1307906

irasdad · May 7, 2020, 6:37pm

JFC – the traitor pled guilty, guilty, guilty!!!

sniffit · May 7, 2020, 6:38pm

Barr didn’t want the Judge to make a decision because it would have blown everything up in their faces. Now they can freely use this as disinformation cultural resentment propaganda.

rhs1963 · May 7, 2020, 6:39pm

Donnie is one smart guy. he gets Barr to do the dirty work so he can’t be accused of letting a traitor off the hook. In the next admin AG Kamala Harris will jail the fucker for 10 years.

pb · May 7, 2020, 6:40pm

Goddamn it! I hate this fucking country.

ralph_vonholst · May 7, 2020, 6:41pm

So he walks even though he plead guilty? And there’s a dead black jogger in GA, murdered by a couple of white dudes who will likely be let off too. Asking me to respect the law is like asking me to respect decomposing road kills.

tiowally · May 7, 2020, 6:41pm

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Compliments of Bill disBarr.

edgarant · May 7, 2020, 6:41pm

Details like that only matter in cases of non-partisan justice.

cd · May 7, 2020, 6:42pm

so THIS is what the rule of law looks like

4th world country, at best

ralph_vonholst · May 7, 2020, 6:43pm

Does anyone have standing to sue?

ralph_vonholst · May 7, 2020, 6:44pm

“Ingroups that the law protects but does not bind and outgroups that the law binds but does not protect”.

seamus42 · May 7, 2020, 6:46pm

Just call him Mikey “Mulligan” Flynn.

I mean hey, who hasn’t betrayed their country a little here and there? He’s a good boy at heart.

castor_troy · May 7, 2020, 6:47pm

This is just beyond belief. Absolutely shameful.

nycabj · May 7, 2020, 6:47pm

I’d say ‘Shame on them’ but they have no shame. As already noted, this is happening after a GUILTY PLEA!

ralph_vonholst · May 7, 2020, 6:48pm

Fuck it. The law is dead and whimsy is alive and well.

longtimeobserver · May 7, 2020, 6:49pm

DIS-Barr!

pb · May 7, 2020, 6:49pm

Technical question: Can the judge just go ahead and sentence him anyway? There was a guilty plea, for fucks sake. The involvement or non-involvement of the DOJ is superfluous at this point.

ralph_vonholst · May 7, 2020, 6:50pm

His reward?

seamus42 · May 7, 2020, 6:50pm

It all depends on what the meaning of “guilty” is.

ralph_vonholst · May 7, 2020, 6:51pm

Who will haul him off to federal prison? Who will enforce it?