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applegrove

(118,855 posts)
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 05:21 PM Dec 2017

Trump legal team readies attack on Flynns credibility

By Carol D. Leonnig at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-legal-team-readies-attack-on-flynns-credibility/2017/12/27/bc601324-ea78-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?__twitter_impression=true&tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.d59f15352675

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President Trump’s legal team plans to cast former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior aides of any wrongdoing, according to three people familiar with the strategy.

The approach would mark a sharp break from Trump’s previously sympathetic posture toward Flynn, whom he called a “wonderful man” when Flynn departed the White House in February. Earlier this month, the president did not rule out a possible pardon for Flynn, who is cooperating with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Attorneys for Trump and his top advisers have privately expressed confidence that Flynn does not have any evidence that could implicate the president or his White House team. But since Flynn’s cooperation agreement with prosecutors was made public earlier this month, the administration has been strategizing how to neutralize him in case the former national security adviser does make any claims.

Flynn is the most senior former Trump adviser known to be providing information to Mueller’s team. The lenient terms of his plea agreement suggest he has promised significant information to investigators, legal experts said.


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Trump legal team readies attack on Flynns credibility (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2017 OP
Yet, I'm hearing that Trump is being pressed by Flynn's brother to provide a pardon BoneyardDem Dec 2017 #1
Good, let the rats start slinging mud janterry Dec 2017 #2
Trump is clearly guilty as hell of this Russian conspiracy triron Dec 2017 #3
Flynn was like a frat brother to Trump gratuitous Dec 2017 #4
Flynn was expendable. Initech Dec 2017 #5
AND then there's this: CatWoman Dec 2017 #6
Well, they didn't have a problem with his credibility before!1 UTUSN Dec 2017 #7
Next Spring's bestseller: "The View From Under the Bus" by M.T. Flynn. nt oasis Dec 2017 #8
 

BoneyardDem

(1,202 posts)
1. Yet, I'm hearing that Trump is being pressed by Flynn's brother to provide a pardon
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 05:24 PM
Dec 2017

we are living in a world of opposites.....and assholes

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Flynn was like a frat brother to Trump
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 05:47 PM
Dec 2017

Right up until the moment he agreed to cooperate with Mueller. Now? The wonderful man that Trump appointed to be his National Security Adviser is damaged goods. Unreliable. A liar. Yea, the scales have fallen from Donnie's eyes, and he now sees Flynn for the mountebank he has been all along!

You'd have to be dumber than a Fox News junkie to believe this malarkey. But watch the popular media line up to gulp it down with a spoon.

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