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DOJ payout to Mike Flynn has J6-ers lining up at the trough
The stage is set for the looting of federal coffers.
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Last week, the Department of Justice announced that it was “settling” a malicious prosecution case with Michael Flynn for $1.25 million.
Flynn’s claims were entirely without merit, and a federal judge had already dismissed them once. But the Justice Department decided to pay him anyway, calling it a righteous vindication of Trump’s constant whining that he was illegally targeted by the FBI and Robert Mueller.
"Those who instigated the Russia Collusion Hoax and Crossfire Hurricane abused their power to mislead the American people and tarnish the reputations of President Trump and his supporters,” a DOJ spokesperson told ABC. “Today’s settlement, secured by this Justice Department, is an important step in redressing that historic injustice."
Encouraged by this blatant corruption, Trump’s most ardent supporters are demanding their own cut. This week, a group of January 6 rioters filed a class action lawsuit demanding recompense for the injuries they suffered when they attempted to overturn the election.
The stage is set for the wholesale looting of the federal coffers by Trump and his MAGA allies.
“Flynn Facts”
Barack Obama warned Trump not to hire Mike Flynn, whose erratic leadership style and tendency to spout what his subordinates called “Flynn facts" got him fired as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014. But Trump chalked it up to sour grapes and announced that Flynn would be his national security adviser, setting off a chain of events that wound up defining his first term.
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In December 2016, Flynn got picked up on a wiretap of Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak promising to reverse sanctions the Obama administration was imposing to punish Russia for its interference in the just-completed election. That made Flynn vulnerable to blackmail, since there was zero chance the Kremlin hadn’t also recorded the conversation. And when the Washington Post published details of the call on January 12, 2017, Flynn made matters worse by publicly denying that he’d discussed anything of substance, insisting that he’d merely exchanged Christmas greetings.
On January 24, 2017, FBI agents visited Flynn and asked him point blank if he’d offered sanctions relief to Russia. Flynn, who’d had a security clearance for decades and had to know by then that the agents had the call on tape, said no. This was clearly a lie, but it was also a crime under 18 USC § 1001, which makes it illegal to lie to federal agents. Eventually, the situation became untenable and Flynn resigned on February 13.
Trump then privately pressured FBI Director James Comey to “go easy” on Flynn. When Comey refused, Trump fired him, admitting to NBC’s Lester Holt and to Kislyak himself during an Oval Office meeting that he’d fired Comey to end the Russia investigation.
Comey’s ouster led to the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel, engulfing the administration in turmoil. And the rest, as they say … is history.
Mueller’s team discovered that Flynn had been working as an unregistered agent for Turkey at the same time he’d been calling to “Lock her up!” Hillary Clinton. He’d even pitched a plan to kidnap Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, a legal US resident despised by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and send him to Turkey “without going through the US extradition legal process” — all for the low price of just $15 million.