So if it was all a hoax how come Flynn needs a pardon?

[mnmoderatedem]

2. you can ask that question to any number of things during the trump misadministration

for instance, if the Ukraine scandal was a "Democrat hoax", why did Lindman, Yovonovitch, and a host of others, who had impeccable state department records, decide collectively, and apparently without any dissent, to risk going to prison by committing perjury in front of the House of Representatives in order to gain absolutely nothing for themselves?

With the trump misadministration, the hypotheticals write themselves.