December 19, 2018--True North

Heading north from Florida yesterday morning, on Jet Blue, I was able to watch on TV the news about former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's sentencing.

Judge Emmet Sullivan was amazing. He wondered out loud why the Mueller investigators were recommending no prison time for Flynn though he "sold out his country" while on a parallel judicial tract two of Flynn's business associates who committed crimes less serious were facing between 10 and 20 years in incarceration.

Why might this be, the judge asked as did the commentators on the various cable news channels I flipped among.

Perhaps the cabin pressure got to me but the answer to why Flynn is likely to get off scot-free seems obvious--

This is because during the scant 24 days Flynn served as Trump's National Security Advisor he colluded directly and openly with Trump on devising strategies to mobilize Russian support for the newly sworn-in president. This after a campaign in which Flynn and Trump also colluded with the Russians in exchange for their massive support for the Trump presidential campaign.

Further, as evidence of Flynn's value as a witness against Trump and the resulting slap-on-the-wrist non-sentence he will receive in March in compensation for that, isn't it likely that Flynn, formerly Director of Defense Intelligence for the U.S. military and thus well versed in these matters, isn't it likely that he wore a wire and has Trump on tape directing him as to what to do to keep the Russians on board as his presidency began to roll out?

If true, this could make Flynn the most important Trump insider to have been flipped by Mueller's investigators.

As they say, stay tuned.