Gen. Flynn Gets --- a Recess --- and now at 11:53am CDT a Delay in His Sentencing
Just reported. 11am CDT
Former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has been sentenced to ... nothing yet.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan is really turning the screws.
Telling Flynn that if sentencing proceeds today, he can't guarantee a no prison sentence.
Pete Williams of MSNBC calling Sullivan a "rattlesnake" judge. 馃槀
Basically, Sullivan is strongly suggesting Flynn postpone sentencing in order to keep cooperating, but Robert Mueller basically has said there's not much more Flynn can help him with.
The judge even asked prosecutors if Flynn could be charged with treason.
Why doesn't the judge order that they just rack him up? Geez Louise!
Prosecutors recommended 0-6 months.
What's the judge up to?
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11:30am CDT
Pete Williams, MSNBC: "[Judge] is predicably unpredicable."
Andrea Mitchell and the other hosts and reporters on MSNBC, not exactly a pro-Trump network, really seem to think Flynn shouldn't get prison time based on the prosecutors' recommendations.
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[big][b]Trouble with giving Flynn a tough sentence AFTER he cooperated in 19 interviews with Mueller's team is what other defendant would cooperate knowing that cooperating ultimately means didly?[/b][/big]
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Speculating: Maybe Sullivan wants to sentence Flynn to prison to force Trump's hand on a potential pardon so that Trump would take a political hit by giving Flynn a pardon?
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11:43am CDT:
They're all back in the court room.
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11:45am CDT
Sullivan walking back his "treason" remark.
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11:48am CDT
Prosecutors tell Sullivan they have no reason to believe Flynn committed treason.
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Flynn's done some creepy things since leaving the military; leading chants of "Lock her up") and especially regarding Turkey. I don't care much about him talking to the Russian ambassador after Trump had won the election. But if Mueller's team is recommending a sentence of no jail time to six months at most, perhaps Sullivan should go with that and give Flynn probation. But certainly not more than what the prosecution wants.
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11:53am CDT
Flynn's defense team takes up offer to delay sentencing.
So no sentencing today.
Guess that means Flynn's lawyers will now make even more money.
Prosecutors will probably now work behind the scenes to get Sullivan onboard with no prison term.
90 day continuance.
All this drama! And no resolution.
Former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has been sentenced to ... nothing yet.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan is really turning the screws.
Telling Flynn that if sentencing proceeds today, he can't guarantee a no prison sentence.
Pete Williams of MSNBC calling Sullivan a "rattlesnake" judge. 馃槀
Basically, Sullivan is strongly suggesting Flynn postpone sentencing in order to keep cooperating, but Robert Mueller basically has said there's not much more Flynn can help him with.
The judge even asked prosecutors if Flynn could be charged with treason.
Why doesn't the judge order that they just rack him up? Geez Louise!
Prosecutors recommended 0-6 months.
What's the judge up to?
---
11:30am CDT
Pete Williams, MSNBC: "[Judge] is predicably unpredicable."
Andrea Mitchell and the other hosts and reporters on MSNBC, not exactly a pro-Trump network, really seem to think Flynn shouldn't get prison time based on the prosecutors' recommendations.
---
[big][b]Trouble with giving Flynn a tough sentence AFTER he cooperated in 19 interviews with Mueller's team is what other defendant would cooperate knowing that cooperating ultimately means didly?[/b][/big]
---
Speculating: Maybe Sullivan wants to sentence Flynn to prison to force Trump's hand on a potential pardon so that Trump would take a political hit by giving Flynn a pardon?
---
11:43am CDT:
They're all back in the court room.
---
11:45am CDT
Sullivan walking back his "treason" remark.
---
11:48am CDT
Prosecutors tell Sullivan they have no reason to believe Flynn committed treason.
---
Flynn's done some creepy things since leaving the military; leading chants of "Lock her up") and especially regarding Turkey. I don't care much about him talking to the Russian ambassador after Trump had won the election. But if Mueller's team is recommending a sentence of no jail time to six months at most, perhaps Sullivan should go with that and give Flynn probation. But certainly not more than what the prosecution wants.
---
11:53am CDT
Flynn's defense team takes up offer to delay sentencing.
So no sentencing today.
Guess that means Flynn's lawyers will now make even more money.
Prosecutors will probably now work behind the scenes to get Sullivan onboard with no prison term.
90 day continuance.
All this drama! And no resolution.
36-40, F
