They never thought she would lose.
Why did Flynn agree to stuff he didn’t do or say?
They were sure Hillary would win, it was all rigged for her.
Problem is they only cheated the usual amount and President Trump brought out voters that hadn’t been voting that they didn’t count on.
Priestap is said to have turned. His remark about playing games signalled his divided nature about what was going on.. so this was a CYA document.. written contemporaneously.
When this crossed into the new administration, the whole game was seditious and he knew it.
Much has been made of the deliberate effort to blow up any Trump person in the National Security Advisor’s seat because the game would be up that exact moment. The naming of Flynn was just fortuitous for this bunch because they had already targeted him.
good point. air could be that they use standard issue notebooks for meetings and they keep them all by policy. But I doubt it.
More likely as you say he kept these notes that show he was trying to be a good guy (or at least a less bad guy) in case the plan blew up.
As to how they came into possession of the notes, maybe they flipped Priestap.
Have seen in the twitterverse underground... a thank you note to someone handwritten by obi-won-kenyobi for some national service or other. This person (un-named) compared the writing with the supposed Priestap’s notes you are posting about.
Someone (was it a court certified forgery expert? who knows) found 4 or 5 letters and words that were a match.
Stray thought is that Priestap (or someone) grabbed obama’s notes on Flynn (at the Jan 5th 2017 meeting) and put them in the Priestap file.
It could be Priestap who was the Head of FBI Counterintelligence (top guy) and was Strozk’s boss (who must have known Strozk was a Brennan see eye aaaa spy in his organization— or found it out in all of this). This is a classic tradecraft move... to “watermark” his notes with obamaumao’s notes substituted. Had he been found out—he might have been offed.
All this being suppositional. However the “matches” are compelling to even a bank president verifying a signature.
I think Priestap flipped about 10 months ago. I heard rumors to that effect back then.
I think it’s going to look like a House of Pancakes with all the flipping these guys are going to do to try to keep their butts out of jail.