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AT THE CENTER OF POWER: President Donald Trump and Michael Flynn (far right) in the Oval Office on February 28, 2017, as Trump is in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Flynn was fired 24 days later. Also pictured are former chief of staff Reince Priebus (from left), Vice President Mike Pence, former adviser Steve Bannon and former chief communications officer Sean Spicer. Photo: Jonathan Ernst / REUTERS
President Donald Trump forgave his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, for lying to the FBI.
He announces it himself on Twitter on Wednesday night Norwegian time.
– It is a great honor for me to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has received a full pardon. Congratulations to him and his wonderful family, I know you are going to have a great Thanksgiving now, writes Trump
Flynn took over as national security adviser in the Trump administration when Trump took over the White House.
The former general was fired by Trump on February 14, 2017, after just 24 days in office, for lying to Vice President Mike Pence and the FBI about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislijak, in the period. comprised between the electoral victory of Donald Trump and the inauguration. President.
Flynn decided to collaborate with letter researcher Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia’s influence in the 2016 U.S. elections, in exchange for a lighter punishment.
An hour and a half before Trump announced the pardon, he shared the Bible verse from Jeremiah 1:19 on Twitter:
They will go to war against you, but they will not win. Because I am with you, says the Lord. I will save you “, it sounds.
He confessed to breaking the law
Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contact with Russia in the weeks leading up to Trump’s inauguration. However, he withdrew his confession in January 2020, and Flynn’s defenders have claimed that the FBI tried to catch him. The US Department of Justice dropped the case against him in May.
There has been a long dispute in the courts over whether the indictment should be dropped and this was not decided when Trump now requested clemency.
Flynn has always avoided incarceration.
PENDED: Former security adviser Michael FLynn is pardoned. Photo: JIM WATSON / AFP
According to the New York Times, Trump is expected to use the time leading up to Biden’s inauguration as president on January 20 to pardon more allies.
One of those who reacted to Flynn’s pardon is former chief prosecutor in the Supreme Court case against Trump in the House of Representatives Adam Schiff.
“Donald Trump has repeatedly abused his power to forgive to reward his friends and protect those who have covered him,” he wrote on Twitter, continuing:
– No wonder it comes out as it came in: bully everywhere.
Earlier this year, Trump converted the prison sentence of his old friend Roger Stone. In February, Stone was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for lying to Congress, influencing witnesses, and obstructing the congressional investigation into whether the Trump campaign cooperated with the Russians before the 2016 election.
