COURTS/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Flynn’s sentencing for lying to the FBI was postponed on Tuesday [12-18-18] after a federal judge suggested all sides wait until President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is finished cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. The surprise outcome came after an unexpectedly contentious hearing, in which U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan repeatedly admonished Flynn, telling him, ‘Arguably, you sold your country out,’ drawing gasps and head shakes from members of Flynn’s family sitting in the courtroom. Flynn — wearing a dark suit, striped tie and standing erect but speaking quietly while addressing the judge — was in court to be sentenced after pleading guilty late last year to lying about the subject of conversations he had with high-ranking Russian officials during the 2016 transition. His sentencing will now likely come sometime in 2019, when he could become the first former senior Trump administration official to go to jail as part of Mueller’s wide-ranging investigation into Russian interference in the last presidential election. Flynn has also acknowledged that he lobbied for the Turkish government during the election campaign without registering as a foreign agent, although he has not been charged in that case.”
–Darren Samuelsohn, “Flynn sentencing postponed after judge scolds ex-Trump aide,” Politico, December 18, 2018 7:16 pm