Trump considering 'full pardon' for
Michael Flynn after FBI 'lost' records
Washington Examiner,
by
Zachary Halaschak
&
Jerry Dunleavy
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
3/15/2020 3:05:51 PM
President Trump said he is seriously considering a pardon for former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“So now it is reported that, after destroying his life & the life of his wonderful family (and many others also), the FBI, working in conjunction with the Justice Department, has 'lost' the records of General Michael Flynn. How convenient. I am strongly considering a Full Pardon!” Trump tweeted on Sunday. Flynn, 61, pleaded guilty in December 2017 for lying to investigators about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak and faces possible prison time.
After swapping legal teams, Flynn changed his tune, telling the U.S. District Court in Washington
Reply 1 - Posted by:
thomthomp 3/15/2020 3:13:13 PM (No. 347262)
To paraphrase Yoda, there is no " consider", there is only "do". And the sooner the better.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/15/2020 3:13:25 PM (No. 347263)
Every agent involved in the handling of this case should lose their jobs for extreme incompetence and be barred from ever holding a law enforcement position anywhere! Inexcusable!
73 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
greggojo 3/15/2020 3:19:43 PM (No. 347270)
President Trump is right, as he almost always is. And imo, Adam Schiff is a disgusting pig person. What have you done for us Schiff? Besides wasting months of our fine President's time with your sham impeachment hearings. It is proof of President Trump's remarkable energy and love for this country, that while Schiff and the Democrats were busy pursuing their ridiculous, fact free hearings, President Trump was working to protect us against the coronavirus. Schiff's response to Mr. Trump's tweet is the height of venality and hypocrisy, but as we all know, Democrat political leaders have no shame, and no sense of right and wrong.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 3/15/2020 3:19:44 PM (No. 347271)
Just guessing, but knowing PDJT’s obsession with loyalty, I imagine this pardon has been on the table since Day 1. He won’t let this travesty go unresolved.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/15/2020 3:20:02 PM (No. 347272)
Sorry. Setting Flynn free isn't enough anymore. The people responsible for "losing" those records should not only lose their jobs but also go to jail. Enough with the lost records and destroyed laptops. What kind of intelligence and justice agencies do we have that they can so easily get away with such criminal behavior so often?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/15/2020 3:24:03 PM (No. 347274)
If that is how the FBI wants to play this game, pardon Flynn and fire Wray and a whole bunch of other top brass. This is beyond ridiculous now, and the FBI no longer has respect or credibility any longer regarding anything.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
obdurate 3/15/2020 3:28:06 PM (No. 347278)
" No body, no crime".Pardon !
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 3/15/2020 3:34:15 PM (No. 347281)
"pleaded guilty..." are there no editors or writers who actually know any grammar any more?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JJLizzie 3/15/2020 3:45:54 PM (No. 347293)
Trump should pardon Flynn and Roger Stone now while this virus thing is a story.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MDConservative 3/15/2020 3:58:21 PM (No. 347302)
Flynn embedded himself in this web all by himself. He twice admitted his guilt. His legal team either sold him down the river, or ought to be sued for malpractice. I don't want to hear about dad protecting his son. One does not plead guilty to a non-crime for any reason. Hubris caught up to the hero. And accepting a pardon means he accepts his guilt.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/15/2020 4:03:47 PM (No. 347306)
Problem is that Flynn wants total exoneration. A pardon can only come after guilty verdict.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/15/2020 4:05:33 PM (No. 347307)
Re #8, dictionary says pleaded and pled are alternatives for plead.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/15/2020 4:07:58 PM (No. 347310)
Correction to my #12 - pleaded and pled are past tense for plead.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/15/2020 4:10:00 PM (No. 347312)
If nothing else, it would get the Coronavirus BS hysteria off the networks and front pages.
14 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Osprey21 3/15/2020 4:15:07 PM (No. 347313)
The President needs to fire Chris Wray first thing tomorrow morning.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
msjena 3/15/2020 4:22:40 PM (No. 347318)
Do it!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
msjena 3/15/2020 4:24:19 PM (No. 347320)
Sorry for send post. # 11, not true. Ford pardoned Nixon before he was even indicted.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/15/2020 4:28:07 PM (No. 347322)
Full monetary restoration of General Flynn and the firing - and not just a shuffle to another department - and loss of pension and golden health care of anyone in the FBI who said records were lost would be nice as well.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Avikingman 3/15/2020 4:29:14 PM (No. 347323)
Get him his house back and some cash to relax with, and to sue the bastids.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
The Remnants 3/15/2020 4:29:20 PM (No. 347324)
The FBI continues to do themselves proud. NOT
But General Flynn always did himself and his family and his country proud.
I hope he can come back into Trump's White House. Our country needs people with his integrity.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
seamusm 3/15/2020 4:42:08 PM (No. 347334)
No, a pardon is not expungement nor does it restore what was stolen from him. He needs to be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea and seek restitution.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Muguy 3/15/2020 4:43:19 PM (No. 347338)
If Judicial Watch was on the case, the records would be FOUND, although years late!
Full restitution is in order here.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
curious1 3/15/2020 4:55:23 PM (No. 347346)
#2 and 5 are on the right track. But you can't deter this behavior when they wind up getting significant paydays after they 'take one for the team'. They have to realize they have skin in the game that isn't growing back when they commit these illegal, treasonous, corrupt, unethical acts. They get fired. Lose their pension. Their families are penniless. Then hang them and leave them dangling in front of the building until they rot off the rope, as a warning to all the other would-be bureaucrat tyrants. They won't come back from that, and the cost to play tyrant suddenly gets too expensive for them. It's the only way to stop this.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
FormerDem 3/15/2020 5:46:24 PM (No. 347385)
Please pardon him! It is NOT fair what they did to him, and the way Democrats treat each other is totally not they way they treated him!!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
judy 3/15/2020 5:57:18 PM (No. 347401)
Pardon all Mueller targets, reimburse them for legal fees & start a go fund me page for all! After all Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper & others got book deals, jobs at CNN & MSNBC ... Fox gives Trish & Kennedy hiatus for defending Trump while CNN & MSNBC Offers jobs.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
shalimar 3/15/2020 6:14:23 PM (No. 347421)
I''ll believe Comey's dog ate the records before I believe they were lost.
(This is what four decades in D.C. does to a person.)
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
privateer 3/15/2020 6:16:50 PM (No. 347427)
The Departure of Justice specializes in: manufacturing crimes of the innocent, and concealing or obliterating evidence of crimes of the guilty...e.g., the Pigwoman. Furlough the entire department---citing the medical emergency!---and put in place a Justice Czar with plenipotentiary authority.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 3/15/2020 6:47:13 PM (No. 347446)
And the next time Sean Hannity blathers on and on about the brave and honest and highly competent FBI agents that are doing a great job every day, somebody please smack him upside the head with a big ol' mackerel. The last few years are proof to me that the FBI is thoroughly corrupt, weaponized by Deep State, and intent on protecting their own. They ain't MY friends.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
judy 3/15/2020 6:50:23 PM (No. 347448)
Barr & Wray are still covering the corruption in their agencies.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Wendybird 3/15/2020 7:56:52 PM (No. 347490)
As a physician, I have to keep medical records for ten years after the last visit. Just in case the bereaved loved ones decide that grandpa’s death at age 93 might somehow turn into money. But the FBI can’t keep track of their own records. It ain’t right.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 3/15/2020 7:58:22 PM (No. 347491)
I agree with #21. I believe Flynn is specifically seeking complete exoneration, not 'just' a pardon. Also, I was unsure...is this 'lost records' situation a fresh development?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/15/2020 8:21:13 PM (No. 347515)
A political persecution of a President’s close advisor that turned to crap with the investigating agency losing the record of the investigation. That used to only happen in banana republics!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/15/2020 11:02:02 PM (No. 347615)
I don't believe he's guilty of any crimes, but even if he is, he's no more guilty than Felonious Von Pantsuit, Brennan, Comey, Clapper, McCabe, Stzrok , Page and Schiff. If they're going to skate, Flynn definetly should be pardoned.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 3/15/2020 11:12:56 PM (No. 347619)
Boy, over at the DM it is toe to toe b***h slapping..re their story on this..
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
john56 3/16/2020 1:09:01 AM (No. 347649)
Maybe 90 of 99% of FBI agents, intelligence agents are patriotic and can serve without political bias. But in the case of the FBI under the regime of Cardinal Comey and See-No-Evil Wray, you would think some of those patriotic agents would speak up against the crimes of the previous regime.
But they're quiet. They're proving that they are hacks just like their leadership.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/16/2020 2:42:13 AM (No. 347668)
The vaulted FBI lost the records? How about that! That's as good an excuse as saying the dog ate it. By the way, you only lose records when you're trying to cover something up.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
beca 3/18/2020 9:54:08 AM (No. 349831)
Let’s start with firing some agents. I don’t believe for a second they lost his records.. let’s start with Wray. He needs to go...
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