rat. actual rat. i prefer to think of this as a sleeping rat, but we called the reporter who got this picture, josh gerstein at politico.com, and he confirms to us there were, like, flies and stuff. i think there's no escaping this is actually a dead rat. and this dead rat appeared today on these steps just outside the courthouse where trump national security adviser mike flynn was in court today for only the second time since he pled guilty a year and a half ago to lying to the fbi. now, the reason mike flynn was at court today was so his new lawyer could ask for yet another delay before mike flynn is finally sentenced. flynn's lawyer is a professional anti-robert mueller pundit and author who can be found at any time of day or night on the fox news channel opining about robert mueller and the russia investigation and the justice department being a whole bunch of terrible criminals and