MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael T. Flynn, a former national security adviser, suggested that a military coup was needed in the United States during a Memorial Day weekend conference organized by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, drawing criticism from political scientists, veterans, Democrats and a handful of prominent Republicans… Mr. Flynn — who suggested in […]
Category: Michael Flynn
12/8/2020
JUDGE SULLIVAN/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Tuesday [Dec. 8, 2020] dismissed the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn but pointedly noted that a pardon Flynn received from the president last month does not mean that he is innocent. The order from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan was expected […]
12/8/2020
CONGRATS/MICHAEL FLYNN/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: Thank you and congratulations to General Flynn. He and his incredible family have suffered greatly! RT @tracybeanz ?? Judge [Emmet] Sullivan has FINALLY dismissed the case of Patriot @GenFlynn!!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 8, 2020 9:28 am […]
11/29/2020
2020 ELECTION/FAKE NEWS/GEORGIA/LAWSUIT/MEDIA/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “GREAT NEWS! Is Fake News @60Minutes watching this? RT @GenFlynn #TeamKraken wins a major injunction. Judge [Timothy] Batten issues an order to freeze all dominion machines in GA. The devil may have gone down to GA, but it is light that shines bright today. @SidneyPowell1 @abigailcfrye @LLinWood @marklevinshow @realDonaldTrump […]
11/28/2020
MEDIA/MICHAEL FLYNN/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Alan Dershowitz: Trump was ‘Absolutely Right‘ to Pardon Michael Flynn https://breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/27/alan-dershowitz-trump-absolutely-right-to-pardon-michael-flynn/ via @BreitbartNews“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 28, 2020 7:35 am […]
11/25/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/PARDONS/PRESS SECRETARY: “Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Grant of Clemency granting a Full Pardon to General Michael T. Flynn. The President has pardoned General Flynn because he should never have been prosecuted… General Flynn should not require a pardon. He is an innocent man… The prosecution of General Flynn is yet […]
11/25/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/PARDONS: “President Donald Trump said he issued a pardon Wednesday [Nov. 25, 2020] to former national security adviser Michael Flynn, ending a three-year legal odyssey for the retired Army general who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with a Russian ambassador prior to Trump’s inauguration. The president’s action, coming in […]
11/25/2020
HOLIDAY/MICHAEL FLYNN/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Have a great life General Flynn! RT @realDonaldTrump It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 25, 2020 1:34 pm […]
11/25/2020
HOLIDAY/MICHAEL FLYNN/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 25, 2020 10:08 am […]
10/9/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Documents reveal that [former National Security Advisor] General [Michael] Flynn was entrapped! @EveningEdit @FoxNews“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 9, 2020 1:35 pm […]
9/29/2020
JUDGE SULLIVAN/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A U.S. judge on Tuesday [Sep. 29, 2020] began examining the Justice Department’s bid to dismiss the criminal case against Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators. The hearing before U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan comes after an appeals court last […]
9/25/2020
FBI/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “A three year HOAX. A failed COUP! RT @BrookeSingman NEW: FBI official who served on #Mueller team said he believed the prosecution of #MichaelFlynn was part of an attitude to ‘get Trump,’& that he did not wish to pursue a Trump-Russia collusion probe as it was ‘not there’& considered it to […]
8/5/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/SALLY YATES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates told a Senate panel Wednesday that in the days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden made no attempt to target incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn for prosecution to undermine the new administration… At one point, Sen. John Kennedy, […]
8/5/2020
CRIME/DEMS/GOP/JOE BIDEN/MICHAEL FLYNN/OBAMA/SPYGATE: “Sally Yates has zero credibility. She was a part of the greatest political crime of the Century, and ObamaBiden knew EVERYTHING! Sally Yates leaked the General Flynn conversation? Ask her under oath. Republicans should start playing the Democrats game!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 5, 2020 4:15 am […]
7/21/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/QUOTE: “ ‘In my view General Flynn should never have been prosecuted in the first place.’ @Judgenap Judge Andrew Napolitano @foxandfriends“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 21, 2020 12:48 am […]
7/14/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE: “Roger Stone was treated terribly by a gang of people that did, in my opinion, a totally illegal act. Russia, Russia, Russia. It was a phony deal. They shoulda known that on the first day. They did know it on the first day. Wait till you see what’s coming out. You’re […]
7/11/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/PARDONS/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Roger Stone was treated horribly. Roger Stone was treated very unfairly. Roger Stone was brought into this witch hunt, this whole political witch hunt and the Mueller scam — it’s a scam, because it’s been proven false. And he was treated very unfairly, just like General Flynn was treated […]
7/11/2020
FBI/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “New documents just released reveal General Flynn was telling the truth, and the FBI knew it! @OANN“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 11, 2020 2:45 am […]
7/9/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As far as General Flynn, he’s a great hero. He’s a great gentleman. What they are doing to that man, they have destroyed that man. But he will come back. He’s going to come back. Roger Stone was treated very unfairly, unbelievably unfairly. And I watched that, and I thought it […]
6/25/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/NANCY PELOSI/RUSSIA/CHUCK SCHUMER/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “[W]e have Schumer and Pelosi and people that are bad people that I honestly believe don’t love our country. What they do to our country and what they’ve done with this scam — the whole scam. Flynn is a piece of it. The Mueller scam. Now […]
6/25/2020
BENGHAZI/CORRUPTION/JOE BIDEN/HILLARY CLINTON/IRS/IRAN/MICHAEL FLYNN/OBAMA/OBAMA ADMINISTRATION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “The Obama/Biden Administration is the most CORRUPT in HISTORY! RT @Jim_Jordan Obama/Biden scandals: -Fast & Furious -Solyndra -Benghazi -IRS targeting -Opperation Choke Point -Spying on journalists -VA waiting lists -Cash payments to Iran -Clinton emails -Unmasking of political rivals -Crossfire Hurricane/Russia Hoax -Crossfire Razor/Flynn Don’t forget!“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/24/2020
DEMS/JAMES COMEY/JOE BIDEN/MICHAEL FLYNN/OBAMA/ROBERT MUELLER: “Is James Comey and his band of Dirty Cops going to apologize to General Michael Flynn (and many others) for what they have done to ruin his life? What about Robert Mueller and his Angry Democrat Cronies – Are they going to say, SO SORRY? And what about Obama & […]
6/24/2020
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Great! Appeals Court Upholds Justice Departments Request To Drop Criminal Case Against General Michael Flynn!“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 24, 2020 4:40 am […]
6/12/2020
JUDGE SULLIVAN/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A divided federal appeals court on Friday seemed reluctant to order the judge presiding over former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s prosecution to dismiss the case ahead of scheduled arguments in the trial court next month… If a majority of the three-judge panel declines to intervene, then oral arguments over […]
5/24/2020
MEDIA/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Be sure to watch, ‘Witch Hunt, the Flynn Vindication’ hosted by the very knowledgeable @GreggJarrett on @FoxNews tonight at 8:00 P.M. This is yet another part of the greatest Criminal Hoax in American History!“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2020 12:51 pm […]
5/19/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “General Flynn is a man of great respect. I was with General Milley, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the other day. I said, ‘Do you know General Flynn?’ He said, ‘Yes, I do. He’s a fine man. I’ve known him for 20 years. He’s a fine man and […]
5/19/2020
DEMS/FBI/FISA/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re going to look at FISA. But nobody has been abused by FISA like the President of the United States, because what the Democrats did and the dirty cops — they’re dirty cops. The FBI people are great. I’ll bet you go in there — they like Donald Trump. But the […]
5/14/2020
CORRUPTION/MICHAEL FLYNN/OBAMA/SPYGATE: “Where is the 302? It is missing. Was it stolen or destroyed? General Flynn is being persecuted! #OBAMAGATE“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 14, 2020 5:37 pm […]
5/8/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/POLICE: “Yesterday was a BIG day for Justice in the USA. Congratulations to General Flynn, and many others. I do believe there is MUCH more to come! Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians do not go well together!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 8, 2020 1:18 am […]
4/30/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN: “Dirty cops tormented General Flynn. General Flynn is a fine man. Thirty-five years or so in the military. You don’t get to be where he is by being bad — that, I can tell you. And then, he — right at the beginning of the administration the dirty cops came in… What they […]
4/30/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What happened to General Michael Flynn, a war hero, should never be allowed to happen to a citizen of the United States again!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 30, 2020 6:47 am […]
4/29/2020
MEDIA/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@CNN doesn’t want to speak about their persecution of General Michael Flynn & why they got the story so wrong. They, along with others, should pay a big price for what they have purposely done to this man & his family. They won’t even cover the big breaking news about this […]
3/15/2020
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “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!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
10/26/2019
MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘General Michael Flynn’s attorney is demanding that charges be immediately dropped after they found that FBI Agents manipulated records against him. They say that James Clapper told a reporter to ‘take a kill shot at Flynn. This has been a complete setup of Michael Flynn….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 26, […]
8/30/2019
COURTS/FBI/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for Michael T. Flynn, the president’s first national security adviser, escalated their attacks on prosecutors on Friday [8-30-19], recycling unfounded conspiratorial accusations in a last-ditch bid to delay his sentencing in a case in which he has twice admitted guilt. The move could anger Emmet G. Sullivan, the federal judge who […]
7/23/2019
CAMPAIGN/CRIME/LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal jury on Tuesday [7-22-19] convicted Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Michael Flynn, on a pair of foreign-agent felony charges stemming from work the two men did for Turkish interests during the final months of the Trump presidential campaign in 2016. The verdicts, returned by jurors in Alexandria, […]
7/16/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Gen. Michael Flynn’s former lawyer testified Tuesday [7-16-19] that Flynn’s business partner was upset by the decision to submit a foreign-agent filing for their Turkey-related work and even began talking about a heart condition when told of the plan to make the disclosure. Prosecutors called ex-Flynn attorney Robert Kelner as a […]
7/9/2019
COURTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, backed off his planned testimony in a federal case against a former associate, according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday [7-9-19]. Mr. Flynn had previously admitted that he lied on foreign lobbying disclosure forms submitted to the Justice Department but now is blaming […]
6/13/2019
MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “General Michael Flynn, the 33 year war hero who has served with distinction, has not retained a good lawyer, he has retained a GREAT LAWYER, Sidney Powell. Best Wishes and Good Luck to them both!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2019 5:21 am […]
6/6/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has fired his lawyers who arranged a 2017 plea deal that helped set the tone for others to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Flynn’s attorneys, Rob Kelner and Steve Anthony, said in a court filing Thursday morning their longtime […]
6/6/2019
MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prosecutors released audio on Thursday [6-6-19] of a voice mail message that President Trump’s personal lawyer left for a lawyer for Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, shortly after Mr. Flynn agreed in 2017 to cooperate with the special counsel’s investigation. The message and its tone offer […]
5/17/2019
GOP/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While he was cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn contacted at least one member of Congress who was publicly criticizing the special counsel probe, according to messages obtained by CNN. Flynn sent Twitter direct messages to Rep. Matt Gaetz, encouraging the Florida Republican […]
5/17/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Flynn told special counsel Robert Mueller that people connected to the Trump administration or Congress had contacted him, potentially attempting to influence his willingness to help prosecutors, newly unsealed court records show. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s one-time national security adviser, gave Mueller a voicemail recording of one of the […]
5/17/2019
COURTS/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [5-17-19] added fuel to his claims that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe was designed to undermine his presidency with a tweet musing why intelligence officials did not inform him they were investigating Michael Flynn before tenure as national security adviser. Court records released Thursday [5-16-19] […]
5/17/2019
MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge. It would have been impossible for me to know this but, if that was the case, and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was I not told so that I could […]
5/17/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump suggested on Twitter on Friday [5-17-19] that he would have fired Michael T. Flynn as an adviser sooner had he known Mr. Flynn was under federal investigation. The tweet came a day after a few new details about Mr. Flynn’s cooperation with prosecutors emerged in newly unsealed portions of […]
5/16/2019
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An unidentified person ‘connected to … Congress’ allegedly tried to influence former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s willingness to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to a filing unsealed in federal court Thursday [5-16-19]. In a newly unredacted filing from prosecutors related to Flynn’s sentencing — originally […]
4/18/2019
2016 ELECTION/E-MAILS/HILLARY CLINTON/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald J. Trump ordered the man who would later serve briefly as his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, to find thousands of missing emails from Hillary Clinton’s computer server at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign, the special counsel’s report revealed on Thursday [4-18-19]. The episode […]
12/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It’s easy to understand why President Donald Trump is tweeting so frantically, slapping away at the shadows that encircle him ever more closely. The events of Tuesday [12-18-18] alone add even more tension to the President and the country’s ongoing drama. The day started with a flurry of presidential tweets, […]
12/18/2018
COURTS/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former national security adviser Michael Flynn expected to be sentenced Tuesday [12-18-18] by a federal judge. But after almost two dramatic hours in a courtroom discussing his crimes, he asked to postpone his sentencing for several months so he can have more of an opportunity to cooperate in federal investigations […]
12/18/2018
COURTS/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Flynn’s sentencing for lying to the FBI was postponed on Tuesday [12-18-18] after a federal judge suggested all sides wait until President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is finished cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. The surprise outcome came after an unexpectedly contentious hearing, in which U.S. […]
12/18/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump sent a supportive message Tuesday [12-18-18] to former national security adviser Michael Flynn, hours before Flynn’s sentencing for lying to the FBI in the Russia investigation…Flynn is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday morning, more than a year after he pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents […]
12/18/2018
MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Good luck today in court to General Michael Flynn. Will be interesting to see what he has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him, about Russian Collusion in our great and, obviously, highly successful political campaign. There was no Collusion!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 18, 2018 6:41 am […]
12/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Required television watching is last weeks @marthamaccallum interview with the wonderful wife of @RodBlagojevich and the @trishregan interview with a Jerome Corsi. If that doesn’t tell you something about what has been going on in our Country, nothing will. Very sad!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, 2018 3:21 pm […]
12/4/2018
MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Flynn, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, cooperated substantially with prosecutors and should not be required to serve time in prison, U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office said in a court filing on Tuesday [12-4-18]. Flynn provided assistance in multiple investigations and gave information on […]
12/4/2018
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Flynn’s lawyer had it right back in March 2017 — his client certainly has a story to tell. That special counsel Robert Mueller clearly agrees but is not ready to share the former national security adviser’s tale with the American people cannot be anything but bad news for […]
12/4/2018
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller told a federal court Tuesday [12-4-18] that former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has given ‘substantial assistance’ to the Russia investigation and should not get jail time. Flynn has sat for 19 interviews with the special counsel and other Justice Department offices, and his […]
12/4/2018
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office will make a sentencing recommendation for former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Tuesday [12-4-18], in a court filing that is expected to shed light on the extent of Flynn’s cooperation in the Russia probe.Flynn, who held the White House job for […]
9/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is set to be sentenced on December 18 for lying to FBI investigators, federal Judge Emmet Sullivan said Wednesday [9-19-18]. Flynn pleaded guilty to one charge last December as a result of the special counsel probe led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller. Both […]
9/19/2018
FBI/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, will be sentenced on Dec. 18, according to a court filing on Wednesday. Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia, in exchange for […]
8/21/2018
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday [8-21-18] sought to postpone a sentencing hearing for Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser…The court asked for an update on a sentencing timeline for Flynn by Aug. 24, but the parties asked for that date to be pushed back to Sept. 17. […]
8/12/2018
JAMES COMEY/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s lead personal lawyer, said on Sunday [8-12-18] that the president never had a conversation last year with James B. Comey, then the F.B.I. director, about ending the investigation into the fired national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, contradicting a memo Mr. Comey wrote at […]
7/10/2018
LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former national security adviser Mike Flynn has a new job: He has joined a global lobbying and investment advisory firm. As he awaits sentencing for lying to federal investigators, he is going into business with Washington lobbyist Nick Muzin and his New York partner Joey Allaham with a new firm called […]
7/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who pleaded guilty in a case related to the Russian election collusion investigation, is eager to move to the sentencing phase and put his legal ordeal behind him, Flynn’s lawyer said at a hearing on Tuesday. Robert Kelner confirmed at the […]
4/20/2018
JAMES COMEY/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So General Michael Flynn’s life can be totally destroyed while Shadey James Comey can Leak and Lie and make lots of money from a third rate book (that should never have been written). Is that really the way life in America is supposed to work? I don’t think so!” -Donald […]
3/29/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On Wednesday [3-28-18] , The New York Times reported that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd floated the possibility that Trump might issue pardons to Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort with their attorneys last year. Meanwhile, CNN has learned there was a discussion within the Department of Justice last […]
3/28/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A lawyer for President Trump broached the idea of Mr. Trump pardoning two of his former top advisers, Michael T. Flynn and Paul Manafort, with their lawyers last year, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. The discussions came as the special counsel was building cases […]
3/21/2018
JAMES COMEY/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has so far discussed with President Donald Trump’s lawyers four main topics they want to talk about with the President. According to two sources, the areas that the special counsel investigators have indicated they want to pursue with Trump are the President’s role in […]
3/20/2018
JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump’s reaction to special counsel Robert Mueller grows more irate by the day, attorneys on both sides sat down last week in a rare face-to-face discussion about the topics investigators could inquire of the President. It was the first in-person meeting after several weeks of […]
3/6/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA: “Michael Flynn, the retired Army general and ex-Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty last year to lying to FBI agents about his Russian contacts, has put his Virginia home up for sale to pay mounting legal fees, friends and family members told ABC News. Flynn’s 13-year-old, three-bedroom townhouse in Old Town […]
1/5/2018
ISRAEL/LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/NIKKI HALEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “In the days before a late-2016 vote on a United Nations resolution that criticized Israel, then-President-elect Donald Trump and top aides made a last-ditch push to target a majority of the U.N. Security Council to scuttle the text, people familiar with the situation said. The lobbying effort, which ultimately failed, […]
12/15/2017
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On his way to Quantico, Va., to speak at the FBI’s National Academy, President Trump stopped to tell reporters, ‘It’s a shame what’s happened with the FBI,’ and ‘you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it.’ Trump asserted that ‘we’re going to rebuild the FBI’ […]
12/7/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY: “President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, will face a different judge to be sentenced than the one who took Flynn’s guilty plea to a felony false statement charge last week, court records show. Judge Emmet Sullivan was randomly assigned to take over the case after Judge Rudolph Contreras […]
12/6/2017
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats said Wednesday [12-6-17] they have evidence from a confidential whistleblower that within minutes of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, then-national security adviser Michael Flynn sent assurances to former business partners that a plan to build nuclear reactors across the Middle East was ‘good to go.’ Democrats on the House oversight […]
12/6/2017
FBI/MICHAEL FLYNN/MIKE PENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “New revelations about Michael Flynn’s lies to the FBI are laying bare Vice President Mike Pence’s in-the-dark strategy when it comes to Russia’s election meddling, raising new questions about whether he could have been left in the dark as he has argued for nearly a year. Advisers have long insisted that […]
12/4/2017
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/MIKE PENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES: “The White House’s chief lawyer told President Donald Trump in January he believed then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled the FBI and lied to Vice President Mike Pence and should be fired, a source familiar with the matter said Monday [12-4-17]. The description of the conversation […]
12/4/2017
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The guilty plea by President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser inspired dueling narratives over the weekend. To Mr. Trump’s supporters, the charge against Mike Flynn for making false statements was evidence that investigators were nowhere near proving collusion with Russians to interfere in the 2016 president election, the matter […]
12/2/2017
MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday ‘interrogation’ with no swearing in and no recording, lies many times…and nothing happens to her? Rigged system, or just a double standard?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 2, 2017 09:06pm […]
12/2/2017
MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 2, 2017 12:14pm […]
12/2/2017
MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Jared Kushner is the ‘very senior member’ of President Donald Trump’s transition team who directed incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn to contact the Russian ambassador to the United States and other countries about a UN Security Council vote on Israeli settlements, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The filings […]
12/1/2017
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA: “Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, pleaded guilty Friday [12-1-17] morning to lying to the FBI about his communications with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. in December 2016, before Mr. Trump took office. Mr. Flynn is the most senior Trump aide or associate to face criminal charges in […]
12/1/2017
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA: “Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, is expected to plead guilty Friday [12-1-17] morning to lying to the FBI about his communications with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. in December 2016, before Mr. Trump took office. In an interview with the FBI in January, Mr. Flynn said he […]
11/28/2017
MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR ENERGY: “Private-sector backers of a controversial Middle East nuclear plan worked with former national security adviser Mike Flynn to promote it inside the White House, to the point of sending him a draft memo for the president to sign authorizing the project. At issue was a proposal to build dozens of nuclear […]
11/24/2017
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating former White House national security adviser Mike Flynn’s work on an unfinished film financed by Turkish interests as part of its wider probe into whether Mr. Flynn improperly concealed financial ties to Turkey and to Russia, according to people familiar with the matter. The focus on […]
11/10/2017
INTELLIGENCE/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating an alleged plan involving former White House national security adviser Mike Flynn to forcibly remove a Muslim cleric living in the U.S. and deliver him to Turkey in return for millions of dollars, according to people familiar with the investigation. Under the alleged proposal, Mr. Flynn […]
10/18/2017
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/ROBERT MUELLER: “Democrats pressed Wednesday [10-18-17] for Rep. Trey Gowdy — the Republican chairman of the powerful House oversight committee — to subpoena the White House for documents related to former national security adviser Michael Flynn… In the letter, the committee’s 18 Democrats detailed the March 22 request for documents from the White […]
9/20/2017
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller is seeking to determine what White House officials knew about a federal investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn early this year. The move comes as Mr. Mueller’s team examines whether President Donald Trump or other administration officials sought to obstruct that probe, according to people familiar […]
9/18/2017
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN: “The family of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn has set up a legal defense fund for him, soliciting donations to ease the ‘tremendous financial burden’ from the ongoing investigations into his actions and the 2016 presidential campaign… The fund will not accept donations from foreign governments, nor will it accept […]
9/13/2017
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/NUCLEAR ENERGY: “As a top official in President Donald Trump’s transition team, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn actively promoted a private-sector scheme to build dozens of nuclear reactors across the Middle East known informally in the transition as the ‘Marshall Plan.’ But he did not publicly disclose that backers of the plan had paid him […]
8/25/2017
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Special counsel Robert Mueller is examining what role, if any, former national security adviser Mike Flynn may have played in a private effort to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers, according to people familiar with the matter. The effort to seek out hackers who were believed to have stolen Mrs. Clinton’s […]
6/29/2017
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA: “Before the 2016 presidential election, a longtime Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private server, likely by Russian hackers. In conversations with members of his circle and with others he tried to recruit to help him, the GOP operative, Peter […]
6/20/2017
FBI/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA: “Federal investigators probing the lobbying work of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn are focused in part on the role of Bijan Kian, Flynn’s former business partner, according to a person interviewed by the FBI. Investigators are also looking at whether payments from foreign clients to Flynn and his company, the now-inactive Flynn […]
5/30/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Last fall, as retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn traveled the country stumping for Donald Trump, his business partner holed up in a small Washington hotel room with the former head of Turkish military intelligence to work on a special project. ‘General, hi. I’m Bijan Kian, welcome to Washington, D.C.,’ Mr. Kian, the […]
5/30/2017
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Former national security adviser Michael Flynn will provide documents requested by the Senate intelligence committee — including an initial batch by June 6 — a person close to Flynn said Tuesday [5-30-17]. The source said that Flynn’s lawyers alerted the intelligence committee Tuesday that he would respond to the two subpoenas sent […]
5/22/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, has rejected a subpoena from senators investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and instead invoked his right against self-incrimination, a person familiar with his decision said Monday [5-22-17]. Mr. Flynn had been ordered by the Senate Intelligence Committee to hand over emails […]
5/22/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn won’t provide records to the Senate intelligence committee and will invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in response to a subpoena from the committee, according to a source close to Flynn. Flynn’s refusal to cooperate comes as he faces scrutiny in several inquiries, including […]
5/18/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Retired Gen. Michael Flynn will not cooperate with the Senate intelligence committee’s subpoena request for documents regarding the former national security adviser’s interactions with Russian officials. ‘Gen. Flynn’s lawyers said he would not honor the subpoena, and that’s not a surprise to the committee, but we’ll figure out on Gen. Flynn what […]
5/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters. The previously undisclosed […]
5/17/2017
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “President Donald Trump loves to talk. To tweet. To be quoted. To sound off. To make news. Which makes the fact that he hasn’t tweeted in more than 20 hours — despite blockbuster reports that he asked then FBI Director James Comey to end the investigation into former national […]
5/17/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “After a New York Times report revealed that former FBI Director James Comey kept memos detailing the president’s attempt to derail the FBI’s Russia investigation, a former White House adviser for multiple presidents says Trump is ‘in impeachment territory.’ The Times report highlighted one particular note from a February meeting between […]