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.
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Sanity Claws
(21,863 posts)I wonder who the WH lawyer was and whether he then went to talk to Barr.
WheelWalker
(8,956 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,830 posts)They don't even bother to hide the crime anymore.
iluvtennis
(19,897 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)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.