Michael Flynn To Withdraw His Guilty Plea? (No. Fake News)

According to trumpy WYD commenter Beantown Antifacist, Michael Flynn will soon will be withdrawing his admission of wrongdoing (Flynn being the first Trump associate to submit a guilty plea to Robert Mueller).

Beantown Antifacist: Oh my, Flynn's guilty plea is going bye-bye, Mueller got his d*ck caught in the judges candy jar! (2/19/2018 at 1:43pm).

"Beantown AntiFascist" (not a member of the Antifa movement despite typing "punch a Nazi" a lot) links to an article from the Right-wing Federalist site by Margot Cleveland (a lawyer). As per Cleveland, "a motion by Michael Flynn to withdraw his guilty plea based on government misconduct is likely in the works".

"Likely in the works" appears to be nothing but wishful thinking (The Federalist, btw, published a defense of the scumbag sexual assaulter of young girls, Roy Moore). Perhaps "likely in the works" is a rhetorical ploy to trick gullible readers like Beanie that this is actually happening? Even though there is no evidence it is. I mean, have you heard about Flynn withdrawing his plea in the mainstream media?

If/when Flynn lawyers make moves to withdraw his plea, I am positive it will be reported. "Lying media" charges notwithstanding. But my prediction is we'll never hear about Flynn withdrawing his plea because he isn't going to.

The following from 2/21/2018 airing of The Rachel Maddow Show (a discussion with Chuck Rosenberg regarding the possibility of Flynn withdrawing his plea).

->Rachel Maddow: [A] development that I think we need some professional help with... if you had your ear to the ground on the political Right today, you'd have heard new rumblings coming out of the Conservative media saying Trump National Security advisor Mike Flynn should withdraw his guilty plea. Mike Flynn pled guilty in December to lying to the FBI. He agreed to cooperate with the Special Counsel's investigation. These new calls on the Right that Mike Flynn should withdraw that guilty plea appear to spring from something that the judge just did in Mike Flynn's case. The judge just issued an order that doesn't say anything specific about the case against Flynn, but reasserts to Robert Mueller's prosecutors that they have the responsibility under the law to hand over to Flynn's defense counsel any evidence they have come across in their investigation that turns out to be favorable to Mike Flynn. I think this the second time the judge has made that sort of a reminder to the prosecutors. Is it a red flag of some kind that the prosecution has done something wrong? Does it mean that Mike Flynn should withdraw his guilty plea? Is that even an option for him? Joining us now is Chuck Rosenberg, former US attorney who has worked with James Comey and Robert Mueller in the past. A former chief of staff at the FBI. Chuck thank you for being here. ... On this matter of Mike Flynn... this order from the judge that appears to have been issued on his own say-so and not in response to anything else going on in the case... The political right says this means there is a real problem in the Flynn prosecution... how do you see this matter? ->Chuck Rosenberg: Much ado about nothing. Many Federal District court judges have a standard discovery order that they enter in every single case. My understanding is that Judge Sullivan has a similar discovery order. In other words, regardless of it's posture, he will file an order telling the government to make sure it abides by it's discovery obligations. That it provides exculpatory or impeachment information to the defense. My understanding is that he updated that order, that he does that from time to time. So I don't think there is anything to it, frankly and I'm sure the government will abide by it. ->Rachel Maddow: There is no indication, in him doing this, that the government has proven itself to need this kind of a reminder because there has been some kind of misbehavior? ->Chuck Rosenberg: Prosecutors know their stuff. There's no indication that there has been any misbehavior. There is no indication in any way that the prosecutors in any way have failed to meet their obligations. And, by the way Rachel, there is absolutely no indication that Mr. Flynn wants to withdraw his guilty plea. And, even if he did, that is an awfully difficult thing to do.

So there you have it. There is nothing to this idea that Michael Flynn will be withdrawing his guilty plea. Despite Beanie's excitement that it is going "bye-bye". And that Mueller's entire case against Trump and his associates will soon be falling apart.

Beantown Antifacist: Seems the Prosecutors leverage has left him. He must disclose ALL of his evidence, not merely its most prejudicial aspects. And since he developed so much of it from a tainted tree, the prosecutor will undoubtfully be left with very little that will remain "admissable". Tsk-tsk. (2/19/2018 at 5:50pm).

As Mr. Rosenberg said, there is nothing to suggest that the prosecutors DIDN'T disclose everything. Judge Emmet Sullivan simply issues this reminder routinely and his doing so (re the Flynn case) does not indicate any wrongdoing by the prosecutors.

The "tainted tree" remark is a reference to Trump stooge Devin Nunes' fake memo that incorrectly suggests the FISA warrant against Carter Page was obtained via deception. The FBI (as per Devin Nunes) dishonestly presented it's case for their warrant. But, given the fact that that argument is complete horsepucky, "fruit of the poisonous tree" does not apply.

The Atlantic: [the Nunes memo is] a cherry-picked document designed for one and only one purpose: to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election by casting doubt on the "legitimacy and legality" of the FBI's application for a surveillance order on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. (excerpt from Devin Nunes's Fake Oversight by Amy Zegart. 2/20/2018).

The point of the continual casting of doubt on the Mueller investigation is to make sure the #trumpdupes are thoroughly brainwashed to not accept whatever conclusions the Mueller investigation reaches. At least in regards to Trump. Lisa (the proprietor of WYD) readily accepted that Russians meddled in our elections. Although the next thing the #trumpdupes accepted was that "Trump said colusion was a hoax, not the Russian involment".

The Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost the election, and so badly (306), so they made up a story - RUSSIA. Fake news!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2017

LOL! These suckers will go along with whatever Trump and the Trump-supporting RW media tells them. On the other hand, I think some of them (at least) know Trump TOTALLY colluded (and his "win" is not legitimate) and just don't care. Their (White Nationalist) man is in the White House (as opposed to the evil Globalist Crooked Hillary) and that is ALL that matters.

Post authored by the anti-Trump Leftist Bastard Dervish Sanders. WYM-27.