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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt Is ON! Flynn Lawyer Met with Members of Mueller's Team This Morning
The lawyer for President Donald Trumps former national security adviser Michael Flynn met Monday morning with members of Special Counsel Robert Muellers team, the latest indication that both sides are discussing a possible plea deal, ABC News has learned.
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.a sign Flynn is preparing to negotiate with prosecutors over a deal that could include Flynns 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 whats called a proffer, detailing what information, if any, he has that could implicate others in wrongdoing.
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.
Jay Sekulow, a member of President Trump's legal team, told ABC News last week that the break was not entirely unexpected.
No one should draw the conclusion that this means anything about Gen. Flynn cooperating against the president, Sekulow said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-flynns-lawyer-meets-members-special-counsels-team/story?id=51412187
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/27/1718890/-It-Is-ON-Flynn-Lawyer-Met-with-Members-of-Mueller-s-Team-Monday-Morning
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Flynn's Pal James Woolsey met with Trump in Mar A Lago this past weekend. This is going to go Ka-Boom.
FakeNoose
(32,706 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Should be cranking as we speak. Got to capture the evening news.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Found the Lead on Raw Story.
JDC
(10,130 posts)WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The Guy is a GOP hack from way back. Love to see him get his ass burned by Mueller.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)trixie2
(905 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)He'll sing like a canary.
FakeNoose
(32,706 posts)... but he's trying to keep his son out of trouble.
So yeah, I'm sure he'll want to cooperate with Mueller.
Mueller's already got him 9 ways to Sunday.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)He still falls under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice.....
See items 104 and 106a
I believe that he at this point is negotiating to save his son, save his family from financial devastation, save his life and to die in prison without being known as a complete scoundrel and replacing the name "Benedict Arnold" with the name Michael Flynn.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/904
FakeNoose
(32,706 posts)Squinch
(50,990 posts)Cosmocat
(14,567 posts)I am sure he looking out for himself, but the real soft spot is his son if he is dirty on this ...
Xolodno
(6,398 posts)...but trying to save his son.
The "I'll give you everything you want and what I know. I'll plead guilty and save you a lot of trouble and move this along, but my son pleads down to a lesser charge and gets a slap on the wrist".
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)I wonder how far the moron will go to save his family's asses. Will he throw them under the bus to save himself? Besides, he can't pardon Kushner if the Baltimore AG has him in his sights just as the moron is toast with NY's AG...no pardons at the state level.
Xolodno
(6,398 posts)Leave the country. The host country will cite the federal pardon and won't extradite. Plus its already known their assets here in the US aren't exactly giving them the return they want. For all we know, they've been funneling money out for awhile.
Nor do I have any illusions that Trump's kids will protect him. There's no honor among these thieves.