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Michael Flynn’s Judge Destroys Trump’s Conspiracy Theory
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/michael-flynns-judge-destroys-trumps-conspiracy-theory.html
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Donald Trump and his allies have spent two years spinning elaborate conspiracy theories about an alleged deep state conspiracy to frame the president and his campaign for imagined crimes revolving around cooperation with Russia.
The most recent iteration of these theories have centered around Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, who has already pleaded guilty to federal charges. Flynn, Trump’s supporters claim, had done nothing wrong and was trapped into telling an inconsequential lie to FBI agents desperate to use him against Trump.
Flynn’s sentencing hearing today showed that this theory, like every previous exculpatory hearing, is an absurd fantasy.
The precise extent of Flynn’s crimes remains largely redacted.
But the response of the judge, Emmet G. Sullivan, gives some indication of their severity.
Sullivan lectured Flynn, “Arguably you sold your country out … I’m not hiding my disgust, my disdain for this criminal offense.”
He mused that Flynn may have committed treason, before later acknowledging that treason only applies to assisting foreign enemies that are in a state of war with the United States (which Russia and Turkey were not.)
What makes this turn of events so devastating is that conservatives have held out Sullivan as the judicial hero who would vindicate their theories.