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Some remarks by the federal judge responsible for the guilty plea of the former National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn, were "rather foolhardy," Katie Pavlich, Townhall's director, told reporters on Tuesday. Special Committee "Special Report".
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan was unleashed on Flynn, the former head of the Trump administration who admitted to having lied to the FBI about his communications with the Russian ambassador , Sergey Kislyak.
"We can say that you sold your country!" Sullivan told Flynn before suggesting
Pavlich insisted that the judge "knew" that the case before him was "one of the most prominent business that's been going on in the public sphere for a very long time".
"For that he publicly declares things when the room is jam-packed with reporters and that everyone is watching things that are not true and that he must then accompany them, insinuating that the betrayal is quite reckless, "Pavlich told the panel – which also included Washington's chief political reviewer, Byron York, and NPR's national political correspondent, Mara Liasson.
York has the same feeling, qualifying "scandalous" the invocation of the treason Sullivan invoked in the Flynn case
"Before the end, the judge had asked whether Flynn had committed treason, what is outrageous, especially from a federal judge, suggested that Flynn might have sold his country and that he was an unregistered foreign agent at the White House, which is what he said. he was not, "York said. A judge can evoke conduct without charge in a sentencing case, but actually suggesting that he was an unregistered foreign agent in the White House was false because even the prosecutor, I believe, corrected the Judge telling him that he had already finished before. "
York added that it had become" this strange situation "that looked like" almost to the madness of all the debate on Trump who went into the audience hall for a day "and that Flynn's future was "completely uncertain" because his sentence was delayed.
Liasson nodded and referred to Sullivan's remarks as "very confusing" as he seemed "concerned" that Flynn "pleaded guilty for something he was not guilty of, "and then" suggested "that Flynn" Guilty of things of which he has not yet been charged. "
Pavlich also notes that officials of the House- White seem to "distance themselves" from Flynn "for the first time", but ask if President Trump "still stands by his side" his decision to ask for Flynn's resignation after the revelation that Flynn lied to Vice President Mike Pence
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