The Flynn caper has exposed one of the fundamental differences between left and right.
On the left you find a long trail of filth - rapists, pederasts, fraudsters, wife beaters, even murderers - so that at regular intervals the left wing establishment and media are having to rally around to protect the latest degenerate who got caught.
Their usual line in the media, history books, and other discourse is (as Richard Nixon famously pointed out during his interviews with David Frost) is "oh ha ha ha it's just fun and games; nothing to see here". Compare that attitude towards Edward Kennedy murdering a woman, Clinton's rape victims, or Hunter Biden's drug addled bribe taking, with Justice Kavanaugh or Donald Trump's locker room talk.
There is nothing new in the left's behaviour folks, or the double standard.
Where they get caught up and caught out is by thinking the right are like them. The attitude of " Flynn knows where the bodies are buried, let's get him to flip on the President " is akin to the, frankly bizarre, oft repeated claims Murray McCully "knows where all the bodies are buried in the National party".
In reality - there are no buried bodies in the National party, and apart from a couple of long forgotten temporary MPs (such as Edward Latter, MP from Blenheim decades ago), never have been.
Similarly there are no Trump bodies, nor Republican party bodies, to find.
This appears to be a cause of not only frustration, as investigations demonstrate how basically squeaky clean their opponents actually are, for the left, but a source of incomprehension.
They cannot believe right wingers are normal, decent people who play by the rules, earn an honest living, tell the truth.... and still manage to win.
It is probably a surprise to Helen and Jacinda to learn National leaders don't have rapists and pedophiles and fraudsters in their Cabinets (or families). Mystifying. To them, anyway.
Apart from demonstrating why government by aristocratic landowners, (rather than anyone dragged in off the street), as it was in the good old days, was by far the best system, it also further demonstrates that " we" are simply better people. And "they" know it (which is why they despise us so much).