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Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn
[MSN] President Trump on Wednesday announced he had pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, ending a three-year legal saga that saw Flynn seek to withdraw a guilty plea for lying to the FBI and a controversial reversal by the Justice Department on his case.Flynn pleaded guilty to a felony in December 2017, admitting that he had misled Sherlocks about details of his conversations with the Russian ambassador during Trump’s presidential transition. His plea was one of the first major courtroom victories for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who had been appointed seven months earlier. But this spring, Attorney General William P. Barr and the Justice Department declared that prosecutors should not have brought the case against him and sought to have it dismissed. That request has been pending before a federal judge, who has been reviewing the case. Trump’s pardon of Flynn marks a full embrace of the retired general he had ousted from the White House after only 22 days on the job — and a final salvo against the Russia investigation that shadowed the first half of his term in office.
Posted by: Fred 2020-11-26 |
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