Flynn Case is a Cover-up in Search of \u00a0a Crime<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nWhat exactly did Flynn do? \u00a0He had conversations with the Russians that may have been traitorous, or may have been more akin to my saying, \u201cwe\u2019ll see\u201d to my kids when I don\u2019t really want to deal with the \u201cwhy not?\u201d that comes with a \u201cno.\u201d \u00a0We don\u2019t know. \u00a0We should<\/em> know, or, rather, Congress should know, bearing in mind that the relevant information is classified, and I hope they do investigate properly. \u00a0(I\u2019ve read complaints that the feds had no right to be listening in on Flynn, but it\u2019s not clear to me what one\u2019s rights are when talking to a foreign diplomat whose calls are routinely monitored.)<\/p>\nHe also lied to Pence, and requested a security clearance for his son, and, by the way, he has a son who pals around with Alex Jones of Infowars. \u00a0And he was booted after a certain amount of delay, which is explained as alternatingly Turmp hoping that the whole thing would blow over because he really wanted to keep Flynn, or Trump just not liking to fire anyone, his Apprentice<\/em> reputation notwithstanding (sorry, no link for the latter).<\/p>\nWhat I don\u2019t like are the\u00a0wishes for Trump to be impeached based on the assumption that, even if it\u2019s not provable, he surely committed treason by being in league with the Russians, or will inevitably do so in the future. \u00a0Which reminds me of conservative accusations that Obama was agreeing to very generous terms, in the Iran nuclear deal, not because that\u2019s the best he could negotiate, given that the Europeans were only half-hearted about the venture and eager to sign off on something to start doing business with Iran, but because he and Valerie Jarrett were fundamentally pro-Iranian and wanted to hand control of the Middle East to them. \u00a0Motives aren\u2019t provable.<\/p>\n
What I like even less are the dreams crossing my twitter feed (yes, often fringe ideas retweeted by conservatives as evidence of how loony the left is) of impeaching Trump, or kicking him out of office as mentally incompetent, not because of any specific crime but\u00a0because he\u2019s just a bad guy in general implementing disliked policies.<\/p>\n
And even the fact that CIA operatives leaked classified information to the press, and it\u2019s being hailed as being \u201cfor the greater good\u201d \u2014 well, what worries me is this: \u00a0today we have CIA operatives leaking information. \u00a0What other actions will government officials or others take \u201cfor the greater good\u201d?<\/p>\n
Overzealous prosecutors plant evidence because they\u2019re convinced that a suspect is guilty even if they don\u2019t have anything in their hands that\u2019ll persuade a jury.<\/p>\n
Given the fact that the left has taken to calling itself \u201cthe resistance\u201d (intentionally connoting the resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries), I don\u2019t think it\u2019s too far-fetched to imagine there\u2019s at least a certain risk\u00a0that the so-called \u201cDeep State\u201d may do the same thing, with some version of \u201cwe had to destroy democracy to save it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Image: \u00a0General Michael Flynn. \u00a0https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ADefense.gov_photo_essay_120724-D-BW835-236.jpg; By English: Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m starting to think that I\u2019ll write one Trump post per week (and this counts for the past week, on the European approach that the week starts on Monday). \u00a0So this is a bit old-news but let me tell you about General Flynn, or, rather, share a few links with you. Article in The Week, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":6057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[494,568,508,325],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-gen-flynn","tag-russia","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n
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