Preet says...

[Cattledog]

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

1. This will be fun to watch

[L. Coyote]

15. Flynn flipped: "Lock HIM up!"

Nice flip eh?

[MFM008]

2. If they allow Flynn

To flip it's because he's not the target...some other smelly rat is......a big fat maggot.

[safeinOhio]

5. Beware of

the cornered animal.
Thing may get very ugly in no time at all.

[Shipwack]

6. Actually, Im more worried about something else...

I remember being excited when we all thought that Ollie North had turned and was going to dish on the Reagan administration. Instead, he took the immunity and sang their praises... :/

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Congress didnt make that mistake this time.

Flynn’s lawyer had shopped him for an immunity deal, but got no takers in Congress, thankfully. Now he’s subject to Mueller’s full pressure, and seems to have flipped on higher-ups.

[onetexan]

9. That's exactly right, this is our Thanksgiving Gift from Above :)

i've been smiling all morning since i heard this news on the early show

[2naSalit]

3. Ooooh boy...

[lagomorph777]

4. Time for this week's episode of "Fun With Flynn!"

[Comatose Sphagetti]

7. Flynn was yelling, "Lock her up!"

I don't want him locked up.
I've been under the shadow of possible harsh legal consequences before and it is a darkness and despair I wish on no one.
Perhaps now he will become wise enough to comprehend the old adage - "All you do comes back to you."

[bucolic_frolic]

10. You are certainly to be visited

by the Spelling Police

Sphagetti? Is English your native language?

Just asking.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

12. Spelled it wrong when registering

and don't know how to change it. Any helpful hints?

[L. Coyote]

16. So, I guess you were comatose then?

Or neyt?

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Exactement

Monsieur L. Coyote, you have stolen ze thouhgts from my little gray cellulars

[Comatose Sphagetti]

33. It's "nyet."

And please feel free to pound sand at your earliest convenience.

Thanks.

[safeinOhio]

20. My excuse is always

Alternative spelling..

[lagomorph777]

27. OK - how 'bout we kidnap him and ship him to a hostile foreign power?

Say...North Korea...

[dawg day]

30. Why not lock him up?

A man of great power and privilege who sells out his own country?

Why the hell not?

He knew what he was doing. He planned to kidnap a man, knowing that he was sending this man to his execution, for $15million. I think I'll save my sympathy for poor kids getting sent to jail for minor offenses like jaywalking-"resisting arrest."

It's important to hold rich and powerful criminals to the law, or there is no low-- there's only legally-sanctioned oppression.

[Alice11111]

36. I do want him to do some time. Treason! Maybe just

a couple of years or so and 5 community service...IF he cooperates.
John Dean did much, MUCH less and cooperated ans still did time.
This is BIG stuff.

[NastyRiffraff]

11. I just bought Orville Redenbacher popcorn

The 12-pack microwave. Movie Theater Butter. And of course beer. 32-pack.

[L. Coyote]

17. I invested in popcorn futures.

And I shorted Rosneft ....

[lastlib]

34. Gonna be a LOT of Rosneft stockholders.....

...trying to cover their shorts.......

. .

[L. Coyote]

35. Gonna be a LOT of Rosneft stockholders.....

having the maid launder their shorts.

[spanone]

13. K&R...

[Hekate]

14. KnR

[FakeNoose]

18. Naturally Preet Bahrara has to be careful

I'm sure he knows more than he's saying here, but he's careful not to tip Mueller's hand.

It seems that earlier reports that Flynn offered to testify against Trump and the offers were refused by the feds - they weren't refused but Mueller thought they were premature. Now Mueller has had over 6 months to check out leads on his own and he's ready to talk with Flynn about what he REALLY knows. Flynn will talk but he's going to jail anyway, the point is to try and get his son out of trouble. Mueller knows what he's doing, he's going after the Big Cheeto.

[Upthevibe]

22. Please let this mean something

..........

[FakeNoose]

23. If you have a few minutes, this is enlightening

Click on the tweet posted by the OP and follow down to the entries by Seth Abramson. I don't know who Seth Abramson is, but he's undoubtedly a lawyer. I'm guessing maybe a co-worker or colleague of Preet's (?).

Anyway in about 15 entries or successive tweets, this Seth Abramson lays out several good points about the NYT article and what we know about Flynn. It takes several minutes to read all of them, but they're very good and worthwhile.

[Irish_Dem]

26. Yes I agree, Flynn is negotiating for his son's legal status.

Mueller has good leverage on Flynn.

[dawg day]

31. Trump too-

Two kids and a kid-in-law potentially indictable... but I don't think Trump would sacrifice himself to save them.

[Irish_Dem]

32. That will be part of the deal cut with Trump. Immunity for himself and spawn.

Jared may be on his own, not sure.
But of course if push comes to shove, his kids are all on their own.

[Alice11111]

37. His son is a real fruitcake, out shining Flynn.

[Irish_Dem]

41. I know, he reminds me of Don Jr.

Maybe Flynn knows that his son will not do well under interrogation and in a court room, since he is crazy and not too bright.

He has to save him from all of that.

[Alice11111]

44. Probably. Plus, he was fired for cause long before Flynn.

[gibraltar72]

19. They call

him Flipper. They call him Flipper.

[Skittles]

24. LOVE hearing from Mr. Bharara

run for office, Preet!

[oasis]

25. Keep "Big Daddy"sweating

[Takket]

28. Mueller must have an absolute slam dunk

A guy who can afford the kind of lawyers flynn surely has is not going to just flip unless he is dead to rights.

[Wounded Bear]

29. Maybe not yet...

but he's getting close, I think. Hell, given what we know just by following the news reports, you figure Mueller has a lot more on Flynn than we do. Hell, everybody knows he violated FARA rules. Sure, he went back and filed post facto, but actually that is just a public confession. It doesn't exonerate him except in the most "friendly" of circumstances.

I think we've known for a while that Flynn was toast. Plus, if Trump tries to pardon Flynn, it kind of removes his 5th Amendment protections against self-incrimination.

[NBachers]

38. Let the republican slandering of Flynn begin . . .

[FakeNoose]

42. You know it's going to happen

Flynn's been paranoid ever since he was fired from the Obama administration (fired for cause too.) Now he'll know that everyone's against him. Ordinarily I'd kind of feel sorry for him.
But ... nah he deserves it.

[NewJeffCT]

40. Flynn also could have done a quid pro quo with Team Trump

where Flynn falls on his sword and maybe implicates one other person and then Trump pardons them all or commutes their sentences.

[FakeNoose]

43. If that were the case, Flynn would not have sought immunity

I think that ship has sailed, he's not getting immunity for himself, but apparently he can still help his son.

Trump has no interest in pardoning Flynn's son, and he doesn't seem too interested in helping Flynn either. The guy was trying to get Trump to pay for his defense lawyers, and he wouldn't even help with that. So much for the "loyalty test" right?