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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Nov 27, 2017, 02:58 PM Nov 2017

Michael Flynn's lawyer meets with members of special counsel's team, raising specter of plea deal

Source: ABC News

By MATTHEW MOSK MIKE LEVINE and BRIAN ROSS Nov 27, 2017, 1:35 PM ET

The lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn met Monday morning with members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, the latest indication that both sides are discussing a possible plea deal, ABC News has learned.

President Trump’s legal team confirmed late last week that Flynn’s attorney Robert Kelner alerted them that he could no longer engage in privileged discussions about defense strategy in the case, a sign Flynn is preparing to negotiate with prosecutors over a deal that could include Flynn’s testimony against the President or senior White House officials.

That process would typically include a series of off-the-record discussions in which prosecutors lay out in detail for Flynn and his lawyers the fruits of their investigation into his activities. Prosecutors would also provide Flynn an opportunity to offer what’s called a “proffer,” detailing what information, if any, he has that could implicate others in wrongdoing. When reached Monday, Kelner declined to comment on the nature of his morning visit to Mueller’s offices in Washington, D.C.

Sources familiar with the discussions between Flynn's legal team and the president's attorneys told ABC News that while there was never a formal, signed joint defense agreement between Flynn's defense counsel and other targets of the Mueller probe, the lawyers had engaged in privileged discussions for months.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-flynns-lawyer-meets-members-special-counsels-team/story?id=51412187

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Michael Flynn's lawyer meets with members of special counsel's team, raising specter of plea deal (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP

Now it's cooking dalton99a Nov 2017 #1

When dumbshit gets wind of a plea deal he will try and work one with Flynn also Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #2

He can't pardon himself for state crimes. lark Nov 2017 #7

Yeah, Schneiderman. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #8

After Mueller's report those numbers will go down a lot. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #14

Wrong and wrong Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #13

Flynn still goes to prison, I'm sure FakeNoose Nov 2017 #3

He probably will do some time but it will be for substantially less time... nycbos Nov 2017 #5

That would have been a fun meeting to sit in on Gothmog Nov 2017 #4

Wonder if he has any credibility left bucolic_frolic Nov 2017 #6

"Stay strong", motherfucker!! Leghorn21 Nov 2017 #9

I hope Bob Mueller is as incorruptible, professional, and patriotic as everyone here seems to think. Rainbow Droid Nov 2017 #10

If we think we've seen too many cray cray tweets from the WH BumRushDaShow Nov 2017 #11

On Nicolle Wallace's show today DeminPennswoods Nov 2017 #12

dalton99a

(81,559 posts)

1. Now it's cooking

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:00 PM

Nov 2017

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

2. When dumbshit gets wind of a plea deal he will try and work one with Flynn also

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:01 PM

Nov 2017

as to a pardon.

Getting THAT on tape, now THAT would be wonderful.

Flynn: "they want me to tell the truth about our deals in the Ukraine and with Vlad and friends, Mr. President"

Trump: "well Mike, you know we cant ever tell them the truth, right?"

Flynn: "sure, yes Don, so what do I say?"

Now, once this is on tape, we than have to rely on an indictment and conviction at which time he pardons HIMSELF. And since almost HALF of the actual voting public support this traitor, what happens next?

lark

(23,138 posts)

7. He can't pardon himself for state crimes.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:22 PM

Nov 2017

That's why I hope one of the indictments is for money laundering and from NY, serious and he can do nothing at all about it.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

8. Yeah, Schneiderman.

Reply to lark (Reply #7)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:23 PM

Nov 2017

The beauty of this is about 40 or 50 million Americans want him to pardon himself for stealing from them and committing treason.

Now that means we are so fucked up here, so completely turned around, i dont know how we ever find our asses again.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,027 posts)

14. After Mueller's report those numbers will go down a lot.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #8)

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 08:55 AM

Nov 2017

His diehard 15% base will never abandon him, like they won't abandon Moore.

But when it is all said and done, it will be much less than 40 million.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,027 posts)

13. Wrong and wrong

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 08:53 AM

Nov 2017

If tRump pardons Flynn, then he can be compelled to tell the truth about everything because he no longer needs or has Fifth Amendment protection.

tRump has lost many many supporters, so it is not "almost half". More like a third, which is bad enough.

See also my next post.

FakeNoose

(32,698 posts)

3. Flynn still goes to prison, I'm sure

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:08 PM

Nov 2017

...but maybe he'll get his son out of trouble. I believe Mueller knows what he's doing.

nycbos

(6,035 posts)

5. He probably will do some time but it will be for substantially less time...

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #3)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:16 PM

Nov 2017

... if he talks. And the more information he gives Mueller the better his deal he get.

Gothmog

(145,443 posts)

4. That would have been a fun meeting to sit in on

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:13 PM

Nov 2017

bucolic_frolic

(43,246 posts)

6. Wonder if he has any credibility left

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:17 PM

Nov 2017

Leghorn21

(13,525 posts)

9. "Stay strong", motherfucker!!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:52 PM

Nov 2017

Oh man, some people are having themselves a "Monday", ay?! Good times!

Rainbow Droid

(722 posts)

10. I hope Bob Mueller is as incorruptible, professional, and patriotic as everyone here seems to think.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:03 PM

Nov 2017

Because if he isn't, we're all screwed.

BumRushDaShow

(129,267 posts)

11. If we think we've seen too many cray cray tweets from the WH

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:40 PM

Nov 2017

look out now!

DeminPennswoods

(15,289 posts)

12. On Nicolle Wallace's show today

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Nov 27, 2017, 08:00 PM

Nov 2017

one of the panel members said Flynn will do anything to save his son. IIRC, Renato Mariotti cited the case against ILL gov George Ryan where the key witness against him flipped because the investigators were going to indict his girlfriend/fiancee. He caved to protect her.

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