Brett Tolman, former US Attorney for the District of Utah, was interviewed regarding the recent revelations from the unsealed Peter Strzok notes. It is his opinion that the activities with regards to Flynn were designed to keep PDJT from taking office. When they failed at that, they then utilized those activities to try to oust the President from office. In other words the activities were designed to overthrow the constitutionally elected government of the United States.
Transcript:
Q: Brian Kilmeade:
A: Brett Tolman:
Q: Newly unsealed notes by former FBI agent Peter Strzok now suggesting that former president Obama–and Joe Biden–weighed in on the Michael Flynn case with the Russian ambassador back in 2017 in the Oval Office. This is the handwritten note showed former FBI Director Jim Comey–get this–*downplaying* Flynn’s call, saying they, quote, “appear legit,” with Kislyak of Russia. So, could Flynn *sue* over malicious prosecution? And what *else* do we get from that conversation and those notes?
Here to discuss it, former federal prosecutor, former US Attorney for Utah, Brett Tolman. Brett, does Michael Flynn, first, have a legal case?
A: Well, he certainly does. I mean, that’s why there is an action called a Bivens action, and that is to go after a federal investigator that violates someone’s constitutional rights. That’s specific for that occasion, and I hope that he [Flynn] is looking at it strongly.
Q: What do you take from these notes that Strzok produced? First off, on the Comey comment. The conversations “appear legit.”
A: Well [laughs], that’s the biggest reason why, now we know, that so much was withheld from General Flynn in the case. These weren’t turned over when the investigation went forward, or the prosecution. So, now they discover it and they see that at the highest levels of the FBI they indicate that the calls were legitimate. That should concern *everyone* that they still, *somehow,* found a way to manipulate a case and bring it when they deemed his underlying action as legitimate.
Q: So, if Comey thinks it’s legitimate, why would the investigation continue? You point to Headquarters at the FBI.
A: [Nods]. Yeah. McCabe saves this case from being dismissed. And why does he do it? Because there is an absolute effort–call it a collusion, a conspiracy, whatever you wanna say, that know we know goes as high as the vice president and the president–to not only withhold information about the investigation [from] the incoming president, but to go after an incoming president, through [his] incoming National Security Adviser, on an investigation that did not have a foundation to it. [I.e., no predication] *That was why* they withheld this, that’s why they continued to prosecute him, because they were doing what they could to try and prevent Donald Trump from getting into the Oval Office.
Q: Brett, we also know that the first person to bring up the Logan Act appears to be the then vice president, Joe Biden. So he can’t duck this issue. Number two is President Obama. He wonders if he should keep intelligence from the incoming administration! And one of the two things he gave, told, President Trump, President-Elect Trump, when he was touring around the White House was: North Korea’s gonna be your number one problem and, number two, essentially, look out for Michael Flynn–he’s trouble. Why do you think he said that?
A: Yeah, I mean, think about that! The vice president has now been caught in a lie–indicates he didn’t know it, but he may have been the one who planted the seed of the Logan Act–and then you have the president of the United States, in a vital conversation with the incoming president, who seems to be tipping his hand at the fact that *something* is going on with General Flynn. Does he want President Trump to be concerned about it? Is he trying to protect the fact that they’ve already launched an investigation they’re not gonna tell him about? It’s concerning at that level, but it’s concerning to *me* as a prosecutor that we would then see them utilize and manipulate FISA warrants, the Steele “dossier”, and everything that they did in their power to try to take down a sitting president.
Q: While the Secretary of State’s overseas, saying, ‘The president is gonna get impea-‘–former Secretary of State, John Kerry–‘is gonna get impeached, don’t worry about him.’ Telling Iran, ‘Hold on, we’ll get a new, he’s not gonna last four years. If he does he’s gonna be gone.’ Unbelievable, the undermining that took place.