I haven’t followed this closely but it seems that Obama is deliberately misstating what the rule of law is. The traditional meaning of the rule of law is that it provides protections for anyone and everyone against prosecutorial abuse. Obama has inverted it: Unless this particular prosecution is successful, the rule of law fails! This flips the traditional meaning on its head. It is Orwellian.
…it has long been speculated that Flynn — though he did not believe he was guilty (and though the agents who interviewed him also did not believe he had intentionally misled them) — nevertheless pled guilty to false-statements charges because prosecutors from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s staff threatened him. Specifically, Flynn is said to have been warned that, if he refused to plead guilty, prosecutors would charge his son with a felony for failing to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent…
If this is anywhere near accurate, Flynn deserved to go free. But what happens to these (apparently) corrupt federal prosecutors? Anything?
I haven’t followed this closely but it seems that Obama is deliberately misstating what the rule of law is. The traditional meaning of the rule of law is that it provides protections for anyone and everyone against prosecutorial abuse. Obama has inverted it: Unless this particular prosecution is successful, the rule of law fails! This flips the traditional meaning on its head. It is Orwellian.
Excerpt from a recent National Review article:
If this is anywhere near accurate, Flynn deserved to go free. But what happens to these (apparently) corrupt federal prosecutors? Anything?