Paul Manafort associate Rick Gates was sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation and 45 days in jail, which he will be allowed to serve on weekends. He was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.
So while I know this guy gave a lot of good information, this is why impeachment isn’t exactly the hottest issue on the planet. The optics (however inaccurate) are gonna appear to the average, not paying attention, American that none of this is a big deal.
Remember that I’m saying the not-paying-attention American. These are the ones they call for the polls asking about impeachment.
I’m grateful for his input, but I’m not sure this helps the cause all that much.
I’d say this sentence is bad news for Flynn. What Gates got has to be a floor to what Flynn will get in sentencing - no way Flynn’s judge will give him less.
At this point, I despair that we will ever find out Flynn’s sentence. He should already be in prison, sentenced and done.
You know who wasn’t sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years probation?
Hillary Clinton.
Nor any time. But that won’t stop the GOP from trying.
They will exhume her body after her demise and try her, if they thought it would make the base happy
4 scaramuccis. On weekends, no less.
It pays to cooperate. Wouldn’t want to be Roger Stone right now.
I would have been just fine if he got no prison time since he’s provided the most information regarding the conspiracy to get Trump elected and fully cooperated with the Feds. It would have been an indication to other people not willing to flip that they’d be treated very leniently if they cooperated. I just want all of the information out in the open.
So does this mean 19 consecutive weekends (15% time off), or does he get to choose which stretches of time to serve? (“I’ll do weekdays in January because the Patriots are in the playoff picture”)
Disagree. Everybody else staring down the barrel of an indictment now knows that Gates gave up everything–that’s why he got the absolute minimum.
Lotta West Wing denizens frantically calling trial-lawyers on secure phones, right about now.
I dearly hope you’re right.
But Her Emails!
Time to reopen the Investigation !
AMIRITE?
Their lawyers are going “Again?” while upsizing their yacht plans.
Dr. coyote is right. Just look at the other side of the coin…Michael Cohen got much MORE jail time because he DIDN’T give them everything. I know why he couldn’t (protecting family) but still… just sayin’
I wouldn’t be so crass as to say it’s Stone’s turn “in the barrel,” but he’s gonna go through some things.
BTW, I hope they throw the book at Mike Flynn. Fuck that traitor! Not that there aren’t 1 million OTHER reasons, but just for the fact of shitting on his cooperation agreement. What a piece of work! 
I’m reading from this thread that the judge will probably throw the book at him. But again, with yet another extension in the sentencing just like Stone, my only question is, when?
No more extensions, please!
Really? So 45 days in the can on weekends only and 3 years probation serves as a deterrent to committing massively profitable crimes? Perhaps this is a joke? Catch a black kid with a roach in his pocket and he gets 10 times that. That’s deterrence.
Yeah seems like this is what Flynn could have got had he not flamed out