His comments come a few days after the Justice Department dropped its case against Trump’s former national security adviser.
On Sunday, amidst a torrent of tweets, Trump called the Flynn case the “biggest political crime in American history, by far” and on ThursdayCrucial quotein 2017. “He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!”Attorney General William Barr approved Flynn case’s dismissal last week, after Jeff Jensen — the outside prosecutor assigned by Barr to review Flynn’s case — recommended that the Justice Department drop it.
Law enforcement investigated Flynn in 2017 out of worries he may have been blackmailed by Russia for his relationship with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn then misstated his connection to the ambassador to investigators, Vice President Mike Pence, and the media.Former President Obama said Friday that the Justice Department’s decision to drop the charges against Flynn jeopardized the “rule of law.
“There is no precedent that anybody can find for somebody who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free,” the former president
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