Well…just got back from washing the car to the news that Michael Flynn’s sentencing has been delayed after the judge tore him a new one for his lawyers bullshit feeding of the conspiracy theory that Flynn was entrapped into pleading guilty to lying to the FBI and didn’t know it was illegal. Giuliani and all of the shows on fox news have been pushing the lie that lying to the FBI is not even a crime for a couple of weeks now but the judge was having none of it…pointedly asking Flynn if he knew that lying to the FBI was a crime and Flynn said he knew when he did it that he was breaking the law and he was not entrapped into pleading guilty…but, that wasn’t enough for the judge as he continually asked the lawyers for Flynn if he was ready for sentencing, telegraphing that there was going to be jail time if he was…so, the lawyers asked for a delay in sentencing so Flynn could continue his cooperation and maybe take jail time off the table…one of the cool things that I read was that the judge laid into Flynn telling him he “betrayed” the US by his actions, essentially driving the last nail into the coffin of the right’s attempts to minimize Flynn’s crimes. I think Flynn’s lawyers really stepped in it by trying to pooh pooh Flynn’s crimes in the sentencing filings and I applaud the judge by not having one bit of that crap…after all, Flynn is a traitor to this country who worked to undermine the sanctions on Russia for interfering in our elections and installing idiot boy trump…no matter how much he cooperates, he should still go to jail…impeach…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well…just got back from washing the car to the news that Michael Flynn’s sentencing has been delayed after the judge tore him a new one for his lawyers bullshit feeding of the conspiracy theory that Flynn was entrapped into pleading guilty to lying to the FBI and didn’t know it was illegal. Giuliani and all … Continue reading There goes those talking points…<\/span>