{"id":10511,"date":"2018-12-19T03:09:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T03:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/michael-flynn-judge-suggests-ex-trump-aide-sold-out-us\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:11:01","slug":"michael-flynn-judge-suggests-ex-trump-aide-sold-out-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/michael-flynn-judge-suggests-ex-trump-aide-sold-out-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Flynn: Judges Comments Indicate this Might Not be Brushed Under The Carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Flynn&#8217;s latest appearance in court was expected to be a bit of a formality &#8211; a wrist slap and no hard time. This despite admitting to lying to the FBI. This\u00a0mild rebuke was expected in large part due to the former national security advisor&#8217;s co-operation with the Russian election-meddling probe. However, Judge Sullivan may have other ideas and at one stage in the hearing asked the prosecutor whether the special counsel&#8217;s office had ever considered charging Flynn with treason!<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing has been deferred and although it is entirely possible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/mueller-investigation-no-jail-time-sought-for-trump-ex-adviser-michael-flynn\/\">Flynn<\/a> will receive some sort of prison sentence, it is also possible that he has some further information to divulge which may lead to the Court easing up.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has made no secret of the fact that he would like to see this matter quietly disappear from public scrutiny, however with the threat of a prison sentence hanging over him, it is entirely possible that some further embarrassing revelations may come out regarding Russian meddling in the Presidential\u00a0election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/18\/politics\/michael-flynn-sentencing-mueller-russia-probe\/index.html\">More Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Header Mark Reinstein\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Flynn&#8217;s latest appearance in court was expected to be a bit of a formality &#8211; a wrist slap and no hard time. This despite admitting to lying to the FBI. This\u00a0mild rebuke was expected in large part due to the former national security advisor&#8217;s co-operation with the Russian election-meddling probe. However, Judge Sullivan may&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[464],"class_list":["post-10511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada-news","tag-michael-flynn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10540,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions\/10540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}