Former Attorney General under the Bush administration, Michael Mukasey, claims that panic over the plea deal by former national security adviser Michael Flynn doesn’t necessarily indicate there’s more to come.
Mukasey appeared on ABC News with George Stephanopoulos and Dan Abrams, and said that “a lot of the heavy breathing and a lot of the speculation is completely unwarranted.”
“That plea agreement does not, to me, indicate that there is anything much else there,” he added.
Flynn plea agreement “does not, to me, indicate that there’s very much else there,” Former Bush AG Michael Mukasey tells @GStephanopoulos: https://t.co/MF6wK965AY #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/0S4XqqPQHA
— ABC News (@ABC) December 4, 2017
Stephanopoulos, the good little foot soldier for the left that he is, pushed the theory that Flynn must be willing to bring down the Trump administration to have gotten off so lightly. But Mukasey wasn’t buying into it.
“We thought that Robert Mueller could have gotten Michael Flynn on several other counts,” Stephanopoulos surmised, “so didn’t he have to get something significant in return?”
“No, not necessarily,” Mukasey responded.
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI regarding communications with Russian officials during the Trump transition leading up to the election.
I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2017
Indeed, this seems to be more a case of Mueller trying to bluff the Trump administration into some sort of lie or obstruction of justice charge.
Or it may simply be a matter of Mueller truly grasping at straws, providing a plea deal just to get Flynn to fess up to the one charge because he has nothing else.
“When you have a witness who can put other people into criminal behavior, you can do open of two things,” Mukasey explained.
“You can immunize him if they’re not willing to disclose their information. You can either give them immunity, in which case they have to testify truthfully or else if they don’t testify they go to jail for contempt, if they testify falsely they go to prison for perjury. You can make them plead guilty, to participating in the same criminal conduct you are trying to prove against the other people you are going after.”
“Neither one of them is true,” Mukasey concluded.
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