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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,393 posts)
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 01:53 PM Sep 2020

Trump met with Michael Flynn's lawyer, who asked him not to pardon former advisor, attorney reveals

Source: CNBC

The defense lawyer for Michael Flynn told a judge on Tuesday that she had talked about Flynn's criminal case in a meeting with President Donald Trump, who has been highly critical of the prosecution of his former national security advisor.

Sidney Powell, Flynn's lawyer, told Judge Emmet Sullivan that during the conversation she had asked Trump not to grant Flynn a pardon while she continued her fight to get the judge to grant the highly unusual request by the Justice Department to dismiss the case.

Powell, speaking during a hearing in Washington, D.C., federal court, said she spoke with Trump and a White House lawyer one time in recent weeks about the case, in which Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the United States before Trump's inaguration.

"I provided the White House with an update on the overall status of the litigation," Powell said.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-met-with-michael-flynns-lawyer-who-asked-him-not-to-pardon-former-advisor-attorney-reveals/ar-BB19xHMU?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=DELLDHP

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Trump met with Michael Flynn's lawyer, who asked him not to pardon former advisor, attorney reveals (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
Oh my! Sanity Claws Sep 2020 #1
Suppose "the WH lawyer" was in fact Barr himself. Oh my!! WheelWalker Sep 2020 #2
So our Federal prosecutor admits she is taking direct instruction from Trump on a criminal case? Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #3
Yep, ain't that a blip. nt iluvtennis Sep 2020 #4
Why should they? SergeStorms Sep 2020 #5

Midnight Writer

(21,830 posts)
3. So our Federal prosecutor admits she is taking direct instruction from Trump on a criminal case?
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 02:27 PM
Sep 2020

They don't even bother to hide the crime anymore.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
5. Why should they?
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 05:34 PM
Sep 2020

The worst that could happen to Mango Mussolini is impeachment, and with a rubber stamp republican controlled Senate that;s never going to happen. So they break any and all laws and rules that used to keep presidents from doing exactly what shit-for-brains does every day.

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