Not only that, if he is called to testify in this matter in the future, he cannot refuse to give evidence, since the 5th Amendment rule against self-incrimination no longer applies. (But if he lies under oath, all bets are off.)
Good rundown of Stone Israel nexus in the Times of Israel, odd how no USian outlets are picking it up. It merited a below the fold graph in the Politico piece on the GJ material.
So if he is pardoned for the crime of lying to FBI, and he can't be charged for that again, can't he be charged for what he was trying to do with Russia, which they have a recording of?
In my forever swinging between hey, general officers are generally pretty smart and hey, general officers can be as fucking stupid as the fucking stupidest, this one has me over to the latter...
nancy pelosi should call trumps bluff on this pardon. "we would love it if trump pardoned flynn so we could have him come testify to congress about what really happened without his 5th amendment dodge or his executive privilege dodge, but I'm assuming flynn will have to wait until after the election for that pardon, right mr. president?"
These people seem remarkably and consistently unclear on the concept that ACCEPTING A PARDON ENTAILS A CONFESSION OF GUILT.
I know, I know. Conservatives don't understand how law works. Shocking.
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Not only that, if he is called to testify in this matter in the future, he cannot refuse to give evidence, since the 5th Amendment rule against self-incrimination no longer applies. (But if he lies under oath, all bets are off.)
Good rundown of Stone Israel nexus in the Times of Israel, odd how no USian outlets are picking it up. It merited a below the fold graph in the Politico piece on the GJ material.
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Worthless to whom, trump for sure because he's pulling the whole party down, but Mitch has been an absolute boon to his masters.
So if he is pardoned for the crime of lying to FBI, and he can't be charged for that again, can't he be charged for what he was trying to do with Russia, which they have a recording of?
He was behind the couch.
The FBI are the traitors for working with the Russian Ambassador to entrap a war hero.
In my forever swinging between hey, general officers are generally pretty smart and hey, general officers can be as fucking stupid as the fucking stupidest, this one has me over to the latter...
Not worthless to Putin.
nancy pelosi should call trumps bluff on this pardon. "we would love it if trump pardoned flynn so we could have him come testify to congress about what really happened without his 5th amendment dodge or his executive privilege dodge, but I'm assuming flynn will have to wait until after the election for that pardon, right mr. president?"
Not worthless to the 1%
Totally transparent so no crime, amirite
So he'll just lie again, and get pardoned again. Easy peasy.
Not just any General, but the former commander of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
And then claim they "tricked" him into lying by asking him questions they knew he would lie about.