The Justice Department says it did not believe it could prove Michael Flynn was guilty of making false statements to the FBI, despite the fact Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI
In like Flynn. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The Justice Department dropped all charges against Michael Flynn Thursday, saying that it did not believe it could prove the former White House national security adviser was guilty of making false statements to the FBI — despite the fact that in December 2017, Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI.
Shortly after Donald Trump won the presidency, the Obama administration imposed sanctions on Russia for its interference in the 2016 election. One day after those sanctions became public, Flynn spoke with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, encouraging Moscow not to retaliate. That call eventually became public knowledge. But the incoming Trump administration denied that Flynn had discussed sanctions during his conversation with Kislyak. U.S. intelligence officials knew this was untrue.
Flynn later decided that he had received poor counsel and withdrew his guilty plea. Last summer, he fired his attorneys and replaced them with Sidney Powell, a conservative commentator who’d authored a book-length indictment of the Mueller investigation titled Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice.
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