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Wednesday, May 13, 2020 6:15:55 PM
The new Michael Flynn documents aren’t the bombshell Trump is making them out to be
"An Ugly Day for the Justice Department"
Including one example of extremely misleading cherry picking in the defense of Flynn.
Trump claims they’re a “total exoneration” for his former top adviser. They aren’t.
By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Apr 30, 2020, 2:00pm EDT
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Related
Trump blames Obama for not warning him about Michael Flynn. Which Obama did.
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/17/18629545/trump-michael-flynn-tweet-obama-warned-him
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In one handwritten note that Trump and his backers in Congress and on Fox News are trumpeting as a bombshell, Bill Priestap, then the FBI’s head of counterintelligence, wrote, “What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired? If we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give facts to DOJ & have them decide. Or, if he initially lies, then we present him [redacted] & he admits it, document for DOJ, & let them decide how to address it.”
Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
#FLYNN docs just unsealed, including handwritten notes
1/24/2017 day of Flynn FBI interview. Transcript: “What is our
goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute
him or get him fired?” Read transcript notes, copy original just filed. @CBSNews
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On that same piece of paper, Priestap wrote, “If we’re seen as playing games, WH [White House] will be furious. Protect our institution by not playing games.” Another note says, “We regularly show subjects evidence, with the goal of getting them to admit their wrongdoing. I don’t see how getting someone to admit their wrongdoing is going easy on him.”
None of this may seem like a big deal. But to Trumpworld, it’s evidence that Flynn was set up by “dirty cops” who were already resolved at that early date to bring Trump down.
Devin Nunes
@DevinNunes
Clear now that General Flynn was set up by dirty cops at the
highest levels of our government...
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8:51 AM - Apr 30, 2020
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Trump even went as far as to retweet a post from his son Donald Trump Jr. calling for the imprisonment of FBI officials involved in the case.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/30/21242695/michael-flynn-bill-priestap-notes-total-exoneration-trump-russia
"An Ugly Day for the Justice Department"
Including one example of extremely misleading cherry picking in the defense of Flynn.
Trump claims they’re a “total exoneration” for his former top adviser. They aren’t.
By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Apr 30, 2020, 2:00pm EDT
[...]
Related
Trump blames Obama for not warning him about Michael Flynn. Which Obama did.
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/17/18629545/trump-michael-flynn-tweet-obama-warned-him
[...]
In one handwritten note that Trump and his backers in Congress and on Fox News are trumpeting as a bombshell, Bill Priestap, then the FBI’s head of counterintelligence, wrote, “What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired? If we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give facts to DOJ & have them decide. Or, if he initially lies, then we present him [redacted] & he admits it, document for DOJ, & let them decide how to address it.”
Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
#FLYNN docs just unsealed, including handwritten notes
1/24/2017 day of Flynn FBI interview. Transcript: “What is our
goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute
him or get him fired?” Read transcript notes, copy original just filed. @CBSNews
59.9K
8:49 AM - Apr 30, 2020
35.7K people are talking about this
On that same piece of paper, Priestap wrote, “If we’re seen as playing games, WH [White House] will be furious. Protect our institution by not playing games.” Another note says, “We regularly show subjects evidence, with the goal of getting them to admit their wrongdoing. I don’t see how getting someone to admit their wrongdoing is going easy on him.”
None of this may seem like a big deal. But to Trumpworld, it’s evidence that Flynn was set up by “dirty cops” who were already resolved at that early date to bring Trump down.
Devin Nunes
@DevinNunes
Clear now that General Flynn was set up by dirty cops at the
highest levels of our government...
93.7K
8:51 AM - Apr 30, 2020
49K people are talking about this
Trump even went as far as to retweet a post from his son Donald Trump Jr. calling for the imprisonment of FBI officials involved in the case.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/30/21242695/michael-flynn-bill-priestap-notes-total-exoneration-trump-russia
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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