Michael Flynn Is The Traitor To America We Always Thought He Was

[UCmeNdc]

Bill Barr's DOJ didn't just drop charges against someone who lied to the FBI. They dropped charges against a traitor to the United States.



During Phase 1 of Trump's attempt to launch "Obamagate" into the news cycle, Trump's acting DNI, Richard Grenell released classified documents related to Flynn's case that showed...wait for it...Obama had done nothing wrong. During Phase 2 of the launch, Trump was aided by his brand newly-confirmed Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe. In order to prove the Obama administration's keeping an eye on Flynn was a witch hunt of the highest order — a conspiracy to destroy Trump! — Ratcliffe released the transcripts to Flynn's conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak! That'll show 'em!

Except...oops.

It turns out, those conversations prove nothing except that Flynn was most definitely a traitorous conspirator with Russia, working to undermine free and fair elections in the good ole U S of A. David Corn, of Mother Jones wrote:


https://crooksandliars.com/2020/05/michael-flynn-traitor-america-we-always

[PJMcK]

1. Flynn is so obviously guilty

His guilt and pleas are the reason the judge in his case won't let the matter drop.

Trump and his crew a traitorous criminals. Each and every one of them needs to be tried, convicted and sentenced for the acts.

Anything less means that our country is broken.

Frankly, I fear the worst.

[Iliyah]

2. treason barr is firing and/or . .

forcefully making people resign that worked on the Russian investigation.

But this will not go away, and majority of the American people know that in fact Russia was involved and helped steal the 2016 elections, with the help of the republicans.

[Cicada]

3. He lied to the FBI. The rest probably wasn't illegal.

[gibraltar72]

4. But it exposes Trump once again as the liar he is.

[reACTIONary]

5. Probably unenforceable, but maybe a violation of...

... the Logan Act.

[Cicada]

10. Logan Act isn't enforceable for 2 reasons

It violates the first amendment

And it is never enforced.nTheory of “desusetude” bars it. If you are the only one charged in a hundred years it is not due process of law. A law isn’t something used against only one person ever. A law applies to people in general not a single target.

[DTomlinson]

6. No shit!

[Martin Eden]

7. Flynn was an appropriate choice to be the National Security Advisor

... to a treasonous POtuS.

[erronis]

8. I'm not sure they were full transcripts. But even so they are damning.

A good analysis by Marcy Wheeler and others:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/05/29/from-day-one-mike-flynn-made-it-russia-and-trump-versus-democrats/

[panfluteman]

9. It Wasn't Just Russia - Flynn Was for Sale to the Highest Bidder

Witness his unregistered foreign agent activities on behalf of Turkey: Writing that pro-Turkey op ed in the paper the day of the 2016 election. His scheming to kidnap that refugee Turkish cleric from his home in the Poconos in the middle of the night and take him off to Turkey - that's so crazy and over the top that it falls into the "you can't make this stuff up" category. And what would such a kidnapping do to the right of residency in the United States, what kind of precedent would it set? Flynn is nothing more than a disgruntled US general with a chip on his shoulder who set out to get even by becoming a mercenary and rogue actor.

[UCmeNdc]

11. The Turkish scheme might have really been a Russian intelligence operation. Russians banked it!

The Turkish man who gave Mike Flynn a $600,000 lobbying deal just before President Donald Trump picked him to be national security adviser has business ties to Russia, including a 2009 aviation financing deal negotiated with Vladimir Putin, according to court records.

The man, Ekim Alptekin, has in recent years helped to coordinate Turkish lobbying in Washington with Dmitri “David” Zaikin, a Soviet-born former executive in Russian energy and mining companies who also has had dealings with Putin’s government, according to three people with direct knowledge of the activities.

This unusual arrangement, in which Alptekin and Zaikin have helped steer Turkish lobbying through various groups since at least 2015, raises questions about both the agenda of the two men and the source of the funds used to pay the lobbyists.




https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/25/michael-flynn-turkey-russia-237550


I think the Russians were using Flynn to trap other highly positioned americans into a blackmail situation.

[Gothmog]

12. Judge Sullivan has seen these tapes/transcripts when he called Flynn a traitor