Framing Flynn: The Scandalous Takedown of an American General

A POST HILL PRESS BOOK

ISBN: 978-1-64293-729-9

ISBN (eBook): 978-1-64293-730-5

Framing Flynn:

The Scandalous Takedown of an American General

© 2020 by Dave Erickson

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Cover art by Cody Corcoran

Photo of Michael Flynn by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

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Though they plot evil against you, and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed.

—Psalms 21:11

CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

ACT 1: WHO IS MICHAEL FLYNN?

1.   Hoodlum

2.   Military Man

3.   Intelligence Guy

4.   Citizen Flynn

5.   Campaign Warrior

6.   Welp, That Didn’t Take Long

ACT 2: SHADY STUFF THEY KNEW FLYNN WOULD UNCOVER

7.   The Iran Nuclear Deal

8.   Secret Side Deals and Pallets of Cash in the Dead of Night

9.   Crossfire Hurricane (Hint: It Ain’t Jumpin’ Jack Flash)

ACT 3: SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENT

10.   Carter Page

11.   George Papadopoulos

12.   Paul Manafort

ACT 4: CROSSFIRE RAZOR, a.k.a. THE FRAME JOB

13.   The Oval Office Meeting

14.   The Ambush

15.   The Takedown

16.   The Curious Case of the 302

17.   Guilty

ACT 5: THE TIDE TURNS

18.   Bringing in a Big Gun

19.   I Pleaded Guilty. Yeah About That…

20.   Jurist? More Like an Activist

21.   Pardon Me

22.   Sullivan’s Unintended Gift

EPILOGUE

23.   Why You Should Care

Acknowledgments

Endnotes

About The Author

FOREWORD

The legal persecution of General Michael Flynn is the Rosetta Stone that permits us to understand the coup d’état treason planned in January 2017 at the highest levels of the Obama regime to remove President Donald Trump, a duly elected president, from office.

Appointed by President Trump to be the twenty-fourth national security advisor in the White House, Flynn had to be removed by the coup d’état traitors in the CIA, the DOJ, and the FBI, before he had a chance to use his extensive intelligence capabilities to expose Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as Number 1 and Number 2 leading the regime-change cabal. Now declassified documents, including a handwritten note by former FBI official Peter Strzok, made clear that on January 5, 2017—fifteen days before President Trump’s inauguration—President Obama presided over an Oval Office meeting attended by Vice President Joe Biden, then-FBI Director James Comey, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. At that meeting, the scheme was concocted for the FBI to entrap General Flynn so he could be indicted for lying to the FBI over a conversation Flynn had conducted with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016. That conversation was a perfectly acceptable responsibility of General Flynn in the transition to the incoming Trump administration. We now know the major subject was an anti-Israel United Nations resolution on Israel being promoted by President Obama as his final assault against Prime Minister Netanyahu in Obama’s final weeks in office. Despite abundant evidence that the FBI did not believe Flynn lied, Strzok allowed his political animus against Trump to overrule his professional judgment as he supervised the counter-intelligence investigation that forced General Flynn to plead guilty to an offense Flynn never committed.

Attorney Sidney Powell waged an epic battle to contest General Flynn’s guilty plea. Through a series of courageous briefs filed in Flynn’s federal district court criminal case, Powell established that Washington-based law firm Covington & Burling gave Powell incompetent advice on registering under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) for which Covington (the law firm of former Attorney General Eric Holder) billed Flynn millions of dollars in legal fees. She revealed emails that documented that Covington made errors advising Flynn in his FARA filing, hid exculpatory evidence from Flynn, and urged Flynn to accept the guilty plea to block Mueller’s attack dogs from prosecuting his son.

Among the shocking revelations in the Flynn case are the cozy revolving-door relationships that exist between the federal bureaucracy and the establishment Washington law firms that are a lucrative retirement parking place for Department of Justice prosecutors. I have devoted my life to my country, only to be accused of crimes, slandered in the media with false and misleading claims, and have my family threatened—all an unimaginable nightmare—one only those who have not walked in my shoes will find difficult to comprehend, Flynn argued, asserting the truth that his prosecution was yet another outrage committed by Obama officials in the DOJ and FBI whose goal was to weaponize our justice system against political enemies. Truly, the criminals in the Flynn case are the Mueller prosecutors who put a gun to the head of Flynn’s son and threatened to pull the trigger unless Flynn signed their guilty plea.

These Mueller prosecutors also attempted to suborn perjury in my case, threatening me that I would spend the rest of my life in a federal prison unless I agreed to say I had a contact with Julian Assange and Wikileaks that I shared with the Trump campaign. As I detailed in my book, Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s Witch Hunt, I refused to take the corrupt Mueller deal, unable to stand before a federal judge and before God to swear to a crime I did not commit. I was never prosecuted, a fact that shows the corruption of the pressure Mueller’s

Office of Special Counsel was willing to exert simply to prove their Russian Collusion conspiracy theory—a lie the DOJ and FBI knew was little more than Russian disinformation from the start.

Powell’s determined requests that the DOJ and FBI turn over exculpatory evidence finally resulted in Attorney General Barr withdrawing all criminal charges in Flynn’s case, effectively throwing out the two guilty pleas Flynn had given in federal criminal case. But instead of ending the case right there, Federal District Judge Emmett Sullivan refused to dismiss Flynn’s case, insisting he as judge and jury still had the right to continue judicial hearings on sentencing Flynn to a crime for which the Department of Justice was no longer charging him. Judge Sullivan’s behavior in the Flynn case reveals clearly that politically motivated judges have thrown away our Constitutional rights to equal justice under law, as they punish their political enemies with socialist Lawfare maneuvers unprecedented in the long history of United States jurisprudence. But Justice Sullivan’s perfidy did not end there. Unwilling to accept a dismissal of Flynn’s criminal case by a three-judge panel of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Sullivan demanded a full en banc hearing before the Circuit Court. With the Circuit Court referring the case back to Judge Sullivan, the case dragged on. By refusing to abide by established U.S. criminal procedure, Judge Sullivan, with the complicity of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, managed to silence Flynn until after the presidential election on November 3, 2020.

By inventing law from the bench, Judge Sullivan revealed himself to be yet another cancer at the heart of U.S. justice under Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s radicalized political left.

Sullivan showed he was a leftist judge that apparently did not see the need for a criminal indictment to render a criminal sentence on a legitimate American hero whose only crime was to support Donald Trump. But with the U.S. DOJ and FBI acting like Hitler’s Gestapo or Stalin’s KGB, why should we expect anything different than a Hitler/Stalin show trial from a Trump Derangement Syndrome federal judiciary?

Dave Erickson’s important book details exactly how and why the Obama administration Deep State agents framed General Flynn. Put simply, the Obama White House, about to leave office in January 2017, was desperately afraid that Flynn as national security advisor to President Trump would reveal the many crimes committed by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton in conducting U.S. foreign policy for their personal enrichment. Obama, Biden, and Clinton have never explained many unsolved foreign policy mysteries.

Why was Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, without the protection he begged to be put into place?

Why were pallets of cash flown to Iran in U.S. military cargo airplanes as part of a fraudulent Obama administration deal that allowed Iran to build nuclear weapons after a waiting period?

Why did the Obama administration encourage, organize, and fund the uprisings under the Arab Spring that allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to take power in Egypt while Islamic radicals toppled the Qaddafi regime in Libya?

Why was ISIS armed by Hillary Clinton illegally shipping weapons through Libya and Turkey to the so-called ISIS rebels in Syria?

Nor do we know why Barack Obama allowed Joe Biden through his son, Hunter, to be paid millions from a fraudulent energy firm in Ukraine?

Why did Hunter Biden fly with his father on Air Force 2 to China? How did Hunter Biden secure a billion-dollar investment deal from the Communist Party ruling China that benefitted Chinese companies anxious to expand their market presence in the United States? Or why was the Clinton Foundation allowed to receive millions of dollars of donations from Canadian investors who benefited while Hillary Clinton steered through regulatory hurdles the sale of 20 percent of U.S. uranium to Russia under the crooked Uranium One deal?

Given what Obama, Clinton, and Biden knew of the crimes they had committed conducting U.S. foreign policy for personal gain, the risk General Flynn would expose these crimes was too much for the Obama-Clinton-Biden cabal to bear. Thus, the destruction of General Flynn’s career through framing him for the crime of lying to the FBI was a small price these coup d’état traitors were willing to commit to preserve their foreign policy cover-up. Hence, General Flynn became collateral damage as the DOJ/FBI insurance policy to impeach President Trump transitioned from Operation Crossfire Hurricane to the Mueller investigation. Now, the goal was to silence Flynn in order to cover up the coup d’état plan to use Russian collusion—a hoax we now know

Hillary Clinton concocted—to make sure Donald Trump would never serve out his term despite being the legitimately elected president of the United States. Suffering his ordeal at the hands of these criminals and traitors, General Flynn lost his home to pay his legal bills, suffered four years under threat of going to prison, and had his stellar military career tarnished all because he knew, or would most certainly have found out, where Obama, Hillary, and Biden had buried the corpses.

I applaud Dave Erickson for bringing this information forth, and I urge you to read this book not only with attention but also with alarm. Except for heroes like General Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell, we might yet lose this Republic and our Constitutional freedoms to a group of Democrat Marxists who are desperate for power at any cost—even the cost of committing treason. I believe this book beautifully chronicles the injustices perpetrated on an American patriot—a man who’d ultimately be pardoned by President Trump, and rightfully receive the vindication and the justice he so richly deserved. 

—Jerome R. Corsi, PhD

PREFACE

Arrogance.

Hatred.

Corruption.

Vindictiveness.

These are the cornerstones on which this story is built. A true tale of good versus evil.

I didn’t know the extent of the evil when my publisher asked if I’d be interested in writing about the Flynn case. I knew Flynn had been railroaded but wasn’t anywhere close to knowing the depths to which corrupt actors would sink to push a lie—and how they’d use that lie to destroy people’s lives. Nor did I know just how high up in the government the evil went.

The takedown of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, with the vile, reprobate, and often illegal behavior of agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, their bosses—heavy-hitters in the Obama administration—Joe Biden, and Barack Obama himself, is the most heinous miscarriage of justice and biggest political scandal in the history of American politics.

Oh, one could cite the night of June 17, 1972, when GOP operatives broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC, as being worse. The break-in and ensuing investigation opened a Pandora’s box of corruption and exposed a trail of bad acts leading straight to the Oval Office. Watergate, which ultimately took down President Richard Nixon and sent other politicos to prison has, for the better part of nearly fifty years, been the benchmark by