He pled guilty because Mueller was breaking him financially.
My point is Mueller is supposed to be investigating Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. How are Flynn's postelection contacts with the Russians material to that investigation and is it not possible he did not consider them "material" since there's no way in hell they were?
Whether HE considered it “material†or not, I just don’t think it’s wise to lie to the FBI. One morning several years ago, I had the FBI unexpectedly show up at my house at 6:30. This was part of a coordinated attempt to interview 4-5 potential witnesses/suspects about a potential bribery investigation they were doing involving a member of Congress and a Political Action Committee I was in charge of. They got my wife and me out of bed, but since we had nothing to hide and had done nothing wrong, we agreed to be interviewed. Before the questioning started, I said the following to my wife (in front of the FBI agent): “We’re going to answer every question honestly and truthfully. If we’re not 100% confident of an answer, we’re going to say, we’re not sure or I don’t know. If we are 100% confident of an answer, we’ll answer the question to the best of our abilityâ€. Nothing came of the investigation. Perhaps Flynn should have followed this simple, common sense advice instead of lying.
I believe if, in the course of the investigation, they find criminal acts, they pursue them. This is how an investigation into a land deal got Clinton in trouble over lying about a sexual dalliance. After that experience, I’d think anyone being investigated should know better.
Words to live by IMO: don't lie.
