Did Flynn's lawyers buy into Jeanine Pirro conspiracy BS defence and it backfired on them?

[Quixote1818]

Maybe they got watching FOX and Pirro's talk about this judge got them wondering and so they thought "Hay, worth a shot?"

Sounds like the judge wants them to come back and leave that conspiracy crap behind. He wasn't amused by this type of shit coming from people like Pirro and them running with it.

[underpants]

1. Not just Pirro - this the RW standard

Why on earth his lawyers included this I don't understand

[Quixote1818]

2. The clips I have seen of her that everyone is making fun of practically guarantee this judge

was going to buy into this crap. Had I seen them before hand I would have been super nervous as to what would happen today. She made it sound like she knew exactly how this judge would react and I think that might have pissed him off.

[H2O Man]

3. Yes.

Very much so.

Recommended.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. They don't even hide how they spread their misconceptions and misinformation to each other.

I guess it makes sense that if they repeat a torpid idea enough times, eventually they will get enough people to support it. I just didn't expect to see it coming directly from the actual lawyers. It use to be that this kind of "reasoning" was floated quietly among the cronies. It spreads out slowly. By the time we heard it, it sounds like this: "I know a lawyer who told me, blah, blah, blah." And based on that, the whole community crosses the line of criminality. But now it looks like the lawyers are cutting out the middlemen.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. No, I think they were just looking for a way to make Flynn look more sympathetic,

but it was totally an exploding cigar.

[Kablooie]

6. Part of Flynn's plea deal was that he continue to take full responsibility for his crimes.

This was trying to blame his lies on the FBI agents.
A blatant breaking of his plea deal.
Using Fox News logic as a defense was a totally boneheaded thing to do.
He put himself on pretty thin ice.