Good luck today in court to General Michael Flynn. Will be interesting to see what he has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him, about Russian Collusion in our great and, obviously, highly successful political campaign. There was no Collusion!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 18, 2018
Trump Wishes Flynn ‘Good Luck Today In Court’: ‘There Was No Collusion!’
And there’s no witness tampering, pressure from the so-called president and commander-in-chief, or veiled suggestion of a pardon either.
Trump has treated Flynn gingerly for a few reasons:
But this tweet is an odd one. My sense of it is that Trump is starting to worry what Flynn told prosecutors to get his sweetheart deal. Flynn may have left the impression he was loyal to Trump but has subsequently screwed him over and is now angling to take over the MAGA crowd when Trump gets dumped as the bill comes due for his terrible policies and his criminality. As more people indicate that Flynn got a great deal, the mob boss in Trump who could only look at Flynn as a model of martyrdom because he knew why Flynn lied (answer: to protect Trump and to keep the #trumprussia conspiracy and the dream of the ultimate payoffs alive) now may be coming to terms with the fact that Flynn has totally flipped on Trump.
tRump:
OK, so maybe there was no collusion (doubtful, but possible with legal finagling) … but there is little doubt that there is going to be a collision between tRump and reality… and the sooner the better.
Very interesting article in the Daily Beast this morning. I generally disregard almost all articles that claim to know what the Special Counsel is up to for the obvious reason that since the OSC doesn’t leak, they’re getting their info from biased 3rd party sources who often have an agenda.
However, this one did catch my eye:
This dovetails with a long running theory I’ve had that the primary purpose of the Transition was to figure out how to give the Kremlin (and other benefactors like the Saudis/Emiraties) the payback they wanted without getting caught. Mueller is looking at the sanctions issue in much the same way as Adam Schiff outlined in a recent interview. Sanctions were the common thread and the common dangle from the primary to the general election to the transition to the Administration. This dangle went to multiple Trump associates. It was the same ‘quid’ for different ‘pro quos’. Everyone got a shot at making a personal score, whether it was Cohen, Flynn, Papadopoulos, Page, Trump, Kushner, Junior, Broidy, Paul Erickson, NRA, Prince et al. This is why the Russians do multiple dangles. For example, Flynn was promised consulting opportunities relating to the nuclear deal. Kushner was promised big time financing to bail him out of 666 Park Ave. Trump was promised TT Moscow. All required the removal of sanctions to happen. The Russians were looking for multiple options to move things in place to get what they wanted and they wanted to compromise everyone and give this group of traitors a defining identity: that to make the score of their lives, they needed to deliver something to the Kremlin.
Mueller appears to have been following this trail and this article indicates he has found some gold.