Paul Butler: ‘We’re Getting Close’ to ‘Treason’ If Trump’s Trying to Thwart the Flynn Investigation

‘he’s trying to thwart an investigation about whether someone’s a double agent’

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EID: "I’m going to come to you on this, Paul. Jeff Sessions was the leader of the Trump transition team. He’s claiming he had no knowledge of Flynn possibly being on the payroll of the Turkish government to kidnap a U.S. Resident, send him back to Turkey and cutting this deal where this person may actually be talking to the FBI. Is Jeff Sessions in any trouble over the Flynn case? And how much trouble?" 
BUTLER: "Sessions answered his questions at the hearing in a very lawyerly way. In a way that makes people not like lawyers because it seems like he’s evasive. He’s not fully answering the question. Michael Flynn — I’m thinking about Valentine’s day this year, President Trump met with then FBI Director Comey and said can you see your way clear to giving Michael Flynn a break. Joy, if President Trump knew then what we all know now, that Flynn was a double agent, that at the time that he was in consideration to be the national security director, that he was also talking about kidnapping the guy for $15 million, then that’s President Trump’s exposure. We’ve been thinking about obstruction of justice. But if he’s trying to thwart an investigation about whether someone’s a double agent at time he’s working for the government, I haven’t talked about treason before but we’re getting close to that." 

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