The "pardon" that won't be

By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/24/2017 - 3:49am |

Very important point - it's been 8 months or so of signalling how Flynn could be pardoned and so uncooperative, and here he is cooperating. If not a pardon for Flynn, then who? Fairly obviously not Manafort. We're hearing Kusher's being sent back to New York, with rumors of Donny and Jared not getting along too well.

The whole pardon presumption has changed greatly. That power in Trump's back pocket looks more and more like just his ass showing.

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http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/pardon-michael-flynn-2/6205/

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Speculation Trump was in on kidnapping deal which was why lawyers/cases were linked. And blood (Flynn Jr) proves thicker than water and trumpkinds. With Manafort's phone "tapped" (was Flynn's ever?) a lot of raw intel that might have set up The Don as well. Getting fun, may have to cancel Netflix, as the ad says. Yeah, it's gossipy, but what's that bit about almost Man of the Year? We're all Gossip Girl now.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/25/2017 - 12:45pm

The theory is Muller is working with NY state prosecutors. Presidential pardons only apply to federal crimes. Even if Trump pardons Flynn for federal crimes he can still be prosecuted in NY state. So the speculation in the article that Flynn doesn't trust Trump to pardon him has no basis.

by ocean-kat on Sat, 11/25/2017 - 3:40pm

Peracles... we can truly hope . . .

Seth Abramson ‏@SethAbramson Nov 25

6/ The president knowingly aided and abetted crimes against the United States in order to secure Russian assistance with his presidential bid. His part in the conspiracy was to pre-promise Russia the enormous financial/political windfall of a unilateral lifting of U.S. sanctions.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/934523229942812673

,,,,

Seth Abramson‏ @SethAbramson Nov 25

7/ Flynn almost certainly knows all of this, which means if he's signed a deal with Mueller, it's only a matter of time before the true circumstances of Trump's campaign and election (including the actions of Sessions, Trump Jr., Manafort and others) become internationally known.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/934524257287237633

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Mon, 11/27/2017 - 2:29am

Oh, old stuff - we're on to Hope (Hicks) & (Spare) Change by now. Put on some more popcorn, please....
(BTW, your cat clock running fast is right over 20000 times a day, if my math is right. Stopped clocks are overrated.)

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 11/27/2017 - 2:37am

Peracles... Uhhhh...

You're the one that was blabbing about Flynn and the pardon business...

And yes Hope is in the cross-hairs, I saw it over a week ago... . At least she's easier on the eyes than Flynn.

Seth Abramson‏ @SethAbramson Nov 13

Any time you see in the news that an email about Russia was sent to this person—HOPE HICKS—it means that email was seen by TRUMP. Don Jr., Papadopoulos, Page, and others appear to have used Hicks as an "email launderer"—she shows emails to Trump he can later claim he never saw.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/930195369010614272

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Mon, 11/27/2017 - 3:39am

I'm concerned my deadpan is getting confused for serious - must poke it a bit to see if can still wiggle.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 11/27/2017 - 4:25am

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