Trump's lawyer is asking Flynn to break the legal agreement he's making with the FBI, to risk years extra in jail to give them notice of anything Flynn may say that implicates Trump in a crime. And he's also dangling a pardon/witness tampering.
Read it again. First of all you can see he's already tried and failed to get Flynn to do this: "I understand your situation, but let me see if I can't state it in starker terms."
And then there's the bullshit "national security" claim which is undermained by the outright criminal "protecting all our interests".
Then there's what a jury would understand as offering a pardon in exchange for help.
The judge, who has seen some of the evidence in this case unlike us, said to Flynn at his sentencing "you sold your country out" and enquired from the prosecution whether they'd considered charging him with treason. And now Trump is refusing to obey a court order to release some of that evidence to the court to make public.
This is where the rubber meets the road for your crazy conspiracy theory Lyle. You're putting all your faith in a bunch of grifters and crooks and believing the ridiculous theory that the career prosecutors who were investigating these criminals, the top people in the law enforcement community, would take part in something that would lock them away for life when in fact they're just investigating a bunch of crooks.
If rich guy justice didn't exist in America, if you couldn't just pay a fine to avoid going to jail, Trump would have already served decade for money laundering (paid the biggest fine ever for money laundering to avoid trial) and would currently be in jail for defrauding poor and vulnerable people in the Trump University scam (paid a $25 million fine to avoid trial). This is a gut who along with the rest of his family have been banned from sitting on the board of any charity because they used their own charity (funded by gifts from other people, not the Trump family) to pay their own bills. Trump even paid the $7 joining fee for his son to join the Boy Scouts out of his charity. They're a bunch of crooks and conmen Lyle.
Nixon handed over the Watergate tapes. What was on them eventually forced his resignation.
And again the Stone stuff is just you parroting whatever crazy conspiracy theory is on the internet. I'm sure there's a much fuller version of what Stone and his supporters believe the truth is. You're alluding to it here with the claims about incorrect warants and so on. How about posting a more complete picture and then we can compare it to reality when the trial happens and the evidence comes out.
And oh the Flynn thing. When the Flynn lawyers returned the voicemail call the reaction from Trump's lawyer was even worse:
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/statu...47012128604161
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