Thread by @Monaheart1229

Some updated reporting re the SEVERAL things that happened in Michael Flynn's case yesterday. Beginning with his firing of his legal team, indicating that Flynn might be considering backing out of his gov't deal. #FridayFeeling #TREASON
politico.com/story/2019/06/…

2-"Flynn’s case took several unexpected twists on Thursday as it inches toward closure. First, his longtime lawyers notified the presiding federal judge that their client had fired them and hired new attorneys. That move set off a raft of speculation in legal and political

3-"circles that Flynn is considering backing out of his plea deal with the government in a play for a presidential pardon. Also on Thursday, federal prosecutors released the audio recording of a November 2017 voicemail left by John Dowd, Trump’s personal attorney at the time,

4-"to one of Flynn’s lawyers seeking information about discussions they were having with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators before Flynn ultimately pleaded guilty..[Former FBI ass't Dir] Strzok’s notes from the FBI agents’ interview with Flynn, known in bureau

5-"parlance as a “302” for the form an agent fills out, offer several more details about multiple conversations between the Trump aide and the Russian ambassador [Sergey Kislyak] after the 2016 election..According to Strzok’s write-up, Flynn called Kislyak twice around Christmas

6-"2016 to express condolences for a pair of tragedies — the murder of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey and an airplane crash in which members of a Russian choir were killed. Both calls, Flynn told the FBI agents, were to maintain a good relationship with his Russian counterpart.

7-"On Dec. 28 of that year, Kislyak also texted Flynn, who told the FBI agents he was traveling in the Dominican Republican at the time and had poor cellphone reception, so therefore didn’t call Kislyak until the following day. Flynn told the agents that when the two connected,

8-"they discussed setting up the video call between Trump and Putin, as well as picking a representative to a terrorism conference in Khazakhstan. That call was the same day that then-President Barack Obama announced he would expel 35 Russian diplomats in response to Russia’s

9-"efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. But Flynn said he didn’t recall any discussion with Kislyak about that. When agents pressed Flynn, asking specifically whether he had told Kislyak not to engage in a “tit-for-tat” with Obama, Flynn told them, “Not really.” In Flynn’s

10-"guilty plea, he admitted that this version of events was untrue. He acknowledged speaking with a member of the Trump transition team about how to persuade Russia not to escalate the situation with the Obama administration, and immediately reported back to the team after his

11-"conversation with Kislyak. The next day, Putin agreed not to retaliate for the U.S. actions..In his FBI interview, Flynn also recalled that his second trip to Russia came in late 2015, when he was famously invited to a gala hosted by RT, a Russian media outlet. Pictures of

12-"the event show that he was seated at the same table as Putin. Flynn told agents that he and his son paid a visit to Kislyak around the time of this trip as a courtesy-and he noted that he had received a “threat briefing” from the Defense Intelligence Agency before attending."

13-A little bit more on Michael Flynn firing his legal team, which was announced via court filing yesterday. Something's cooking in the Flynn camp & Flynn wants a pardon. Speculation is that the new lawyer is poss Giuliani or Dershowitz..#FridayFeeling
politico.com/story/2019/06/…

14-"But the move also comes amid a yawning disconnect between the approach adopted by the well-respected legal team Flynn has used since the start of the Russia probe and the combative rhetoric from many of his friends and family members, who have accused Mueller’s team of

15-"deception and argued that Flynn was tricked into pleading guilty. Some have urged Flynn to seek to withdraw his plea. Jack Posobiec, a pro-Trump provocateur who has joined forces with the Flynn family in calling for the retired Army lieutenant general’s exoneration and

16-"pardon, wrote Thursday on Twitter that he was told the new Flynn lawyer is “very high profile and appears on TV regularly.” The post added to the speculation over several familiar faces from the Russia probe, including Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, retired Harvard

17-"law professor Alan Dershowitz and the husband-wife duo of Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova, informal Trump advisers who nearly joined the president’s legal team last spring. In a text message to POLITICO, Giuliani said he was not Flynn’s new lawyer. Dershowitz replied that

18-"he’s not representing Flynn. DiGenova in an email wrote, “We are not at liberty to discuss.” Legal experts say the plea deal that Kelner and Anthony cut with Mueller’s team more than a year ago was a generous one, making it possible that Flynn would receive only probation.

19-"Trying to back out of the deal now could open Flynn to a variety of charges, including criminal liability related to unregistered lobbying work he did in 2016 on behalf of a foreign client allegedly acting as a front for Turkey."

20-That Giuliani/Dershowitz could be Flynn's new lawyers indicates that Trump's directly running this mess. Only those bozos would tell Flynn to take the risk of facing greater charges, (like, #TREASON) because Trump'll pardon him. Direct #Obstruction #FridayMotivation