1. Making and withdrawing a guilty plea can simply mean at first, one did not think the matter worth fighting and then later realizing one should. It actually says nothing with regard to innocence or guilt.
Firstly, it is not credible that a man of Flynn's position and expensive legal team would be somehow be mistaken over the consequences of guilt. Secondly, whilst pleading guilty might be done by the innocent to mitigate punishment if a case is going badly or just make the thing go away quickly, let's bear in mind Flynn also admitted lying to the FBI in court twice, under oath. So if he didn't lie to the FBI after all, then he committed perjury.
This is why no-one's trying to get Flynn off on the basis that he didn't lie to the FBI... because he absolutely did.
I'm guessing this is how it went in Flynnworld. It is clear Russia and the Trump team have had dealings that at best look bad and at worst are even illegal. Flynn has had some of those dealings. He lies to VP Mike Pence about some of his contacts - and aren't we all inclined to hope what seems like a small lie makes a problem go away? Then the FBI show up, and he either lies more, or both drops the Trump team in deeper bad press and also has to admit that he's lied to Pence. So he chooses lying. Except this time it blows up because the FBI know it.
3. Any “grilling” was likely done to satisfy the base. We know enough facts to convict her for serious felonies dealing with, for instance, the email server was not “extremely careless.” It wasn’t even the crime of “gross negligence”. The server didn’t bounce off a truck and onto her network due to a failure to have a hockey goalie block it from doing so. It was put there intentionally. An intentional felony. But why would Republicans give her a pass? Because, as Trump charges, we have a bi partisan oligarchy that is doing as it please, law or the interests of the US be damned.
There are regulations that Clinton at minimum stretched to breaking point and maybe beyond by using a private email server, but these are the realms of administrative, not legal punishment. She was not the only government official to use a private email server before or after. Colin Powell did. So did Steve Bannon, Ivanka Trump, Steven Miller and others. The sole potential crime is unsafe handling of classified materials. The investigation found that Clinton's staff did not have classified material on the server frequently, routinely, systematically, or intentionally, and none of them apparently leaked. This is a really hard sell in a courtroom.
As for Trump upholding legality... you are kidding, right? Take a look at that man's backhistory. Is he a man of good repute and solid moral character? 40+ years of constant lying. His business empire was built in large part on inheritance supplemented with tax-dodging and stiffing investors and contractors. In fact, the reason he relies on Russians and Saudis for investment is because after multiple bankruptcies and dishonest dealings, most Western financial institutions stopped lending to him. In his personal life, serial philandering, sexual assaults? Are you seriously telling us he became president and suddenly transformed into a beacon of personal and professional probity?
Except we know he hasn't. Let's remember that Ukraine stuff, because at the point the Senate bounced it, the Republicans were reduced to arguments like:
"Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office... I will not vote to remove the President because doing so would inflict extraordinary and potentially irreparable damage to our already divided nation" (Marco Rubio). In other words, Trump totally did try to get a foreign country to interfere in domestic politics illegally, but the Senate Republicans decided it was politically against their interests to remove him. The Ukraine affair also revealed just how close Trump put himself to the influence of foreign money with clearly corrupt agendas. And if he did that, re. his clear non-exoneration in the Mueller report, how confident are you he wasn't interested in Russian help in 2016, and didn't obstruct justice?
Do you want to tell me what Trump has done about the vast trough of lobbyist money in Washington, apart from nothing at all? How do you feel about the president directing public money into his own businesses, for instance by moving state business to his properties, making secret service personnel pay full fare to guard him and his families at his properties, or executive branch and employees staying at his hotels, or the blurring of the lines between public and private in his relentless Trump merchandise selling? That his company has not been put at a proper remove from him, and is busy trying to make deals in foreign countries that Trump has been particularly friendly with?
When you look at the colossal tower of narcissistic ego that is Donald Trump, what on earth makes you think he cares about you in the slightest? You, and most everyone else in the USA, are rubes. He doesn't like you, he isn't interested in you, he doesn't want to share a drink with you and hear your stories. You're people for him to play with so he gets fame, adulation and money. That's his view of other people. As long as you suck up to him, he's peachy. The minute you're a problem, it's "I don't know that guy", and if you disagree with or oppose him, you'll be on the receiving end of a furious Twitter traducement.
Trump tells us our trade deals with China suck.
And we just believe him because... why exactly? To be fair, the trade treaty is old and some form of renogotiation seems reasonable. I don't think you're actually going to see much change, though. All that noise and economic damage from his trade war is just jingoistic theatre.
ITMT, after making these lousy trade deals, friends and relatives of the deep state types, such as Hunter Biden, then go and receive apparent kickbacks in the billions of dollars, betraying our nation.
Hunter Biden doesn't work in government, he can't be the deep state. And even if he did use daddy's connections to enrich himself, how is that betraying the USA? If anything, he took a ton of money off Ukrainians which he then carted back to the USA to spend there and give Americans jobs.
At best, you appear to be making the argument that it is fine that laws against jay walking is never enforced but this one time, that was fine because the jay walker slept with the charging officer’s wife.
This analogy makes no sense. Flynn did nothing to harm or upset FBI such that they should want to set him up. But his conduct was manifestly improper, trying to arrange official state business whilst not in office and lying to the VP about it.