he admitted to the fbi investigators that were talking to him that he knew that they knew what he had said on the phone and that he still chose to tell them lies about and, john, john, it s important to clarify that a perjury trap is a specific thing. that s different than when a and that s a defense that is asserted by defense counsel. so that s something that a defense counsel would allege the prosecutors were doing. that s very different than a person who is being interviewed and doesn t tell the truth. right. that says something that contravenes what other evidence or other witnesses have provided. so there is no evidence on the public record that indicates that any of the individuals who have been prosecuted, convicted or pled guilty in this case have been caught in any kind of perjury trap. there s one other aspect of pamela s reporting worth examining here which is pamela specifically says that this is the same level of interest the special counsel s team has always
sanctions with kislyak? they gave him every chance to walk away from his earlier statement and he did exactly the opposite. he doubled down. i don t see how that counts as a perjury trap under any definition of the term so donna edwards, this mueller filing today was as if they heard this fiction developing and wanted to correct it. that means there s an audience of one, a federal judge. number one is a freeze frame from fox coverage this week. look at their banner headline. fbi didn t explain that lying would put flynn in legal jeopardy. that s not in jest. that was put on the screen seriously. retired general mark hurtical was on twitter today saying this. as a former lieutenant general, i can attest that one learns not to lie to the fbi much earlier in one s career and at a much
he was already committed probably to a false story and he felt he couldn t go back. but the notion that he was entrapped in some way doesn t fly at all. hey, nelson, when you were here in new york running around and arresting people, your former boss was one rudy giuliani. i m going to read you what he wrote today on twitter. the fbi 302s, basically transcripts of interviews with general flynn show comey and strzok were not searching for the truth but setting a perjury trap for flynn. it included misleading him about not getting a lawyer, not refreshing hisrection and filing a false statement charge when the fbi thought it wasn t. again, nelson, i would never ask you to take a swing at your former boss, but what is he talking about there? it s really hard to see. remember, flynn did not lie about this for the first time in his statement to the fbi. they were there because he had stated two weeks before in public that he had not spoken to
new york running around and arresting people, your former boss was one rudy giuliani. i m going to read you what he wrote today on twitter. the fbi 302s, basically transcripts of interviews with general flynn show comey and strock were not searching for the truth but setting a perjury trap for flynn which included not refreshing his recollection and filing a false statement charge when the fbi thought it wasn t. again, nelson, i would never ask you to take a swing at your former boss, but what is he talking about there? it s really hard to see. remember, flynn did not lie about this for the first time in his statement to the fbi. they were there because he had stated two weeks before in public that he had not spoken to kislyak about the sanctions. they knew that, in fact, he had. so they went to go ask him, are you sure you didn t talk about
kislyak about the sanctions. they knew that, in fact, he had. so they went to go ask him, are you sure you didn t talk about sanctions with kislyak? because they knew that he had. and he reaped the lie that he had voluntarily made two weeks before. they gave him every chance to walk away from his earlier statement, and did he exactly the opposite. he doubled down. i don t see how that counts as a perjury trap under any definition of the term. so donna edwards, again this mueller filing today was as if they heard this fiction developing and wanted to correct it. of course, that means there s an audience of one and it s a federal judge. i want to show you two things. number one is a freeze frame from fox coverage this week and look at their banner headline. fbi didn t explain that lying would put flynn in legal jeopardy. that s not in jest. that was put on the screen seriously.