Perjury Traps and the Mueller Investigation: Stone, Corsi, Flynn, Trump, Who’s Next???
Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone have been all over Fox claiming that they are being strongly pressured by the Mueller investigation to give false testimony against the Trump Campaign.
According to former Federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, an example would be when “the prosecutor calls you in to testify not because they've got some legitimate investigative reason to have you testify but simply to try to sort of trick you or trap you into some kind of a lie that they could then charge you with.”
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/10/637614730/what-is-a-perjury-trap-and-does-it-apply-to-the-special-counsels-investigation
The result is that the person so trapped can be entrapped into saying or doing something they would not otherwise do, due to the fear of long imprisonment and its effects on themselves and their family.
“Last night, Jerome Corsi explained to Tucker Carlson and his audience how the Mueller team were able to charge him with lying to them in order to pressure him to (in his view) to give false testimony implicating Paul Manafort. It is a harrowing tale as he tells it. If you believe him, he is a victim of a ruthless team that took possession of his computer, smartphone, and other records and then spent hours grilling him over details of his communications years earlier. When he failed to remember that he forwarded one email, they had him on a charge of lying, even though, as he told Tucker Carlson.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/jerome_corsi_explains_the_perjury_trap_muellers_team_sprang_on_him_.html#ixzz5YCrjasL1
The possibility of such a perjury trap is why Donald Trump was advised by lawyers not to testify in person to the Mueller investigation.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/trump-perjury-trap-legitimate-concern-reason-to-decline-mueller-interview/
It’s what landed General Mike Flynn in trouble with the Mueller investigation, when he allowed himself to be interviewed by the FBI without his lawyer present.
http://www.floppingaces.net/2018/01/24/michael-flynn-was-entrapped-by-an-fbi-agent-with-an-ax-to-grind/
And then there is Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopolous:
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/413095-papadopoulos-argues-he-may-have-been-entrapped
Finally, Paul Manafort ; Hannity talked about this, too, along with the other victims of the Mueller witch hunt: Corsi, Stone, Flynn, Papadopolous:
“This is now a rogue prosecutor…People are now risking their lives in jail, rather than tell lies that they [the Mueller team] want told…at this point, this is a full-blow political persecution.”
(quote is from the first few minutes; discussion on Gen. Flynn, PapaD & Manafort at ~12:25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqs-dNBrAF4
Because Corsi and Stone are often perceived to be untrustworthy sources for reasons that don’t seem connected to Mueller probe (see Q Drops 2500, 2104, 2091, 1643, 1438), it would be easy to discount what they are telling Fox. But there’s a bigger principle here: the fact that anyone—including General Mike Flynn—can be targeted and entrapped by a grossly corrupted investigative process.