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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Arguably, you sold your country out': Judge blasts Flynn at sentencing
'You were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security adviser to the president,' said U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan.
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 12/18/2018 12:25 PM EST Updated 12/18/2018 12:48 PM EST
A federal judge poised to issue Michael Flynns sentence on Tuesday blasted the former Trump national security adviser for lying to the FBI and questioned whether special counsel Robert Muellers prosecutors could have tried him for treason.
Flynn pleaded guilty late last year to lying about the subject of conversations he had with high-ranking Russian officials after President Donald Trump won the election, but before he took office.
"All along you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security adviser to the president of the United States, said U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan. Arguably that undermines everything that flag over here stands for. Arguably, you sold your country out."
After about an hour of back and forth with Flynn and his lawyers, as well as Muellers team, Sullivan called an abrupt recess to give Flynn and his lawyers more time to reconsider whether they wanted to proceed with the sentencing.
Sullivan, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, noted he was not obliged to follow Muellers recommendation that Flynn get little or no prison time for pleading guilty.
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'Arguably, you sold your country out': Judge blasts Flynn at sentencing (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2018
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Judge Sullivan was appointed first by Reagan, promoted by Bush II, and only then promoted by Clinton
IllinoisBirdWatcher
Dec 2018
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GusBob
(7,286 posts)1. Ok legal eagles of DU, does the word "arguably" allow for wiggle room
verses a term like " clearly" ?
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)2. Judge Sullivan was appointed first by Reagan, promoted by Bush II, and only then promoted by Clinton
Thanks for posting, but the post is missing important data and infers Judge Sullivan was appointed by Clinton and therefore a liberal.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)3. Like Dumpie, like Flynn
Ya know?