Michael Flynn is a liar, traitor, and foreign agent who sought to sell U.S. foreign policy for profit. He usurped authority from the Obama administration and should be in prison. And—yes—I established this across 2 books, 1,000+ pages, and 7,500 citations. amazon.com/Proof-Conspira…
1/ Rule of law isn't something a nation can "mostly" have. If the top intelligence adviser to the President of the United States can be absolved of grotesque treachery to the nation—at the hands of a presidential-puppet AG, no less—we cannot say our nation maintains rule of law.
2/ I've spilled more words in print on Flynn than any U.S. author, yet even those who've researched Flynn's crimes a tenth as much—and who like me hold a law degree and have experience in criminal trial practice—agree Flynn got the deal of the century. Now even that case is gone.
3/ There are no words for what American attorneys are feeling right now. We swore an Oath to uphold the Constitution—and we're now seeing that oath being prostituted to a career criminal in the White House. If any of you had done what Flynn did, you would die in a federal prison.
4/ It's impossible for me to tell Michael Flynn's story adequately on Twitter—that's why it required two books and over 1,000 pages. But understand this: his crimes started in 2015, and they involved treachery to the U.S. in dealings with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Russia.
5/ Even if Flynn's "only" crime had been lying repeatedly to federal agents in early 2017, you must understand that the subject and context of those lies—in *no way whatsoever* mitigated by *any* evidence *ever* revealed in the case—would have warranted a federal prison sentence.
6/ But what happened, in fact, is that prosecutors so needed the intel Flynn had on several associates—co-conspirators to far greater crimes—that they gave him the deal of the century (which he promptly took, confessing in court under oath). And then he took back his sworn words.
7/ The intel Flynn gave prosecutors largely did not appear in the Mueller report. As explained by Mueller on pg. 10 of Vol. 1, all counterintelligence-related information—which is largely what Flynn had to offer—was given by Mueller to the FBI, where it is now presumably buried.
8/ What Flynn didn't count on is that—once Grenell and Barr and other Trump allies in government had ensured Congress wouldn't see what Mueller had given to the FBI—U.S. journalists would begin combing major-media sources *from all over the world* to *reconstruct* what Flynn did.
9/ I put some of that reconstruction in a 2018 NYT bestseller (PROOF OF COLLUSION), and most of it in a 2019 NYT bestseller (PROOF OF CONSPIRACY). Even those books couldn't contain all the info my research uncovered. Those who read either came away absolutely shocked, regardless.
10/ The upshot: Flynn infiltrated the national security apparatus of the Trump campaign at a time he was working for the Turkish government as a foreign agent. He was simultaneously working with agents from Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Russia to sell U.S. foreign policy in advance.
11/ Flynn continued working with the Kremlin even after he knew it was attacking America. He continued working with the Israelis and Saudis even after he knew they were illegally aiding Trump's 2016 campaign to guarantee they would get the policy benefits Flynn had promised them.
12/ But it wasn't just any element of US foreign policy Flynn was selling in advance: it was US nuclear tech that—in the wrong hands—could cause World War III in the Middle East. And, moreover, it was the integrity of our elections.
Flynn sold out our democracy and our security.
Flynn sold out our democracy and our security.
13/ You don't have to take my work for it. As PROOF OF CONSPIRACY—my 2019 book—details and fully sources via major media, elements within the U.S. military *friendly to Trump* and elements within the Trump administration *friendly to Trump* believed Flynn was committing crimes.
14/ And this is why one of the *only pieces of advice* Obama gave Trump was *not to hire Flynn*. This is why one of the *most important pieces of advice* Trump's pal Chris Christie gave him was *not to hire Flynn*. This is why Flynn's federal judge likened his acts to *treason*.
15/ What I'm saying is that the dropping of this case has made history. It is a decision that—if it isn't, by some eleventh-hour miracle, blocked or overturned—will be infamous in U.S. law for a century and beyond. Do not underestimate how dark a day in U.S. history this is. /end
PS/ There's much much more to say about this—particularly Trump's direct complicity in this grotesque, historically harrowing perversion of our nation's founding principles—but for the moment, quite seriously, I'm too stunned to do the subject justice (beyond what's in my books).
PS2/ As I've always said, Flynn is guilty of many crimes and is a (small-t) traitor. But he can't be charged with Treason—the federal statute—as Congress never amended the definition of "war" to add cyberwar. IMO, that's all that saved Flynn from a death-penalty eligible offense.
PS3/ I want to say to any attorneys reading this: history is silently judging us and our profession. Right now. It's no longer possible for any attorney to uphold their Oath to the U.S. Constitution without actively speaking up in defense of our rule of law. This is an emergency.
PS4/ To those wondering if the judge can stop this: if the prosecuting authority refuses to proceed with a case, there's nothing a judge can do—due to separation of powers. Judges can't compel prosecutors to try cases in violation of [what they say are] their ethical obligations.
PS5/ In this case, a corrupt Department of Justice has—knowingly—falsely represented to the court that it cannot prove the elements of the offense it indicted Flynn for. The justification for the reversal is that the work of earlier prosecutors was reviewed by new [corrupt] ones.
PS6/ When I refer to an "eleventh-hour miracle"—not that I expect one—it relates to the fact that Michael Flynn already pleaded guilty, which in theory gives the judge more authority (de jure and de facto) to block the DOJ action here. I don't know that that will happen, though.
PS7/ What Sullivan faces is a situation in which a prosecuting authority says (falsely) "We found new evidence—we never should've prosecuted." A federal judge who goes ahead with sentencing and tries to imprison a person in that context likely ends any chance of future promotion.
PS8/ But in theory—unless I'm missing something—Sullivan could say, "We had the allocution; he pleaded guilty under oath; the new evidence doesn't affect my acceptance of the defendant's plea." Then he could invite the DOJ to say or do whatever it wants at the sentencing hearing.
PS9/ The problem is that everyone knows Trump will pardon Flynn now, should the sentencing somehow go forward. So Sullivan would be positioning himself—to little purpose, other than integrity—as a villain to the half of America that no longer believes in equal justice under law.
PS10/ Again, I want to underscore that if Flynn had *not* already pleaded guilty, there'd be no chance the case continued over DOJ objection. And I see *little* chance Sullivan proceeds with a case the prosecuting authority objects to—he'd fear being overturned by a higher court.
