2. Flynn & his lawyers have been playing a double game: to keep out of prison he's been co-operating with Mueller & pled guilty but to keep wing-nut donations coming in (to pay legal bill) he's pretended he's victim of Deep State conspiracy.
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3. Thing is you can't play the game of pleading guilty while also suggesting you are innocent to your supporters. Justice system wants not just conviction but something more: an admission of guilt that is bone-deep.
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4. This is something Foucault was good on: that pre-modern justice extracted an external price (lashes, torture) but modern justice wants an internal levy: the defendant has to show contrition and full acceptance of the justice of the system.
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5. With George Papadopoulos as well, there's a tension between serving two masters, the legal system that wants submission & the Fox/InfoWars/QAnon audience that wants conspiracy theories. I think this tension will recur in future Trump trials.
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6. We can't rule this possibility out either.https://twitter.com/MattOrtega/status/1075146253191864322 …
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7. If there is an unknown out there, I suspect it relates to Turkey, not Russia. Special counsel prosecutor Van Grack admitted that Flynn vulnerable on Turkish stuff.
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8. This is interesting.https://twitter.com/natsecHeather/status/1075150355078569984 …
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he wanted twitter follows
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Could it be that the judge is reacting to what's behind the redactions in Mueller's sentencing memo?
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