The Democrats are clearly in panic mode right now. On Sunday morning, former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks joined “the Big Lie” movement when she stated unequivocally that the move by the DOJ to drop the Flynn case was “a clear cover-up.” This occurred on MSNBC’s AM Joy program. According to Wine-Banks, because Flynn was facing jail time, Flynn might have had more to offer about Russian involvement in the Trump Administration. Therefore, Barr had to intervene in order to prevent Flynn from doing so.
What alternate reality is this woman living in? None of the other three panelists nor the moderator disagreed. Many were nodding their heads. This is what stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome looks like.
The problem? Flynn was not facing jail time. The offer in the coerced plea deal was probation. Wine-Banks is either embarrassingly misinformed or is simply following talking points sent to her by Democratic leadership (or she really does live in an alternate reality). I vote for the talking points possibility since Wine-Banks was part of the organized opposition to Justice Kavanaugh’s nomination.
Contact all 100 Senators and demand that there be full & unrushed investigation of this matter, the use of stolen Democratic documents, Kavanaugh's not yet released documents * his knowledge of Kozinski's sexual misconduct. No vote until after that is completed by FBI and Senate.
— Jill Wine-Banks (now on Threads as jillwinebanks) (@JillWineBanks) September 17, 2018
There was no mention during the show about the prosecutorial abuses and the outright chicanery of the FBI that have been revealed recently. There was no mention of the faux investigation into Flynn during 2016. There was no mention that the agents did not believe that Flynn lied. There was no mention of the notes that showed the FBI was trying to trap Flynn into a lie. There was no mention of Peter Strzok re-writing the FD-302 to make it seem like Flynn had lied. There was no mention of Mueller’s Hit Squad threatening Flynn’s son with a baseless indictment. Of course, this was MSNBC so a balanced presentation is out of the question.
Wines-Bank spouted the Obama talking point from last week. That being, the news media should be covering this more.
“It should be one of the biggest scandals of this administration and because of COVID-19, we’re not hearing enough about it.”
Wines-Bank at least got it part right. This is a big scandal, probably the biggest in US political history. The part she got wrong is, it was the last administration.
And I agree. We are not hearing enough about that.
