FBI Informant Halper in Jan. 2017: ‘I Don’t Think Flynn’s Going to Be Around Long’

FBI Informant Halper in Jan. 2017: ‘I Don’t Think Flynn’s Going to Be Around Long’
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, departs the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse following a pre-sentencing hearing on July 10, 2018. Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images
Petr Svab
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Stefan Halper, the Cambridge professor who allegedly told the FBI a false story to dirty up then-Trump adviser Michael Flynn, seemed keenly aware of Flynn’s impending downfall in January 2017, according to a recently released recording.

Halper predicted Flynn’s departure from the position of President Donald Trump’s national security adviser just two days before a leak of classified information set in motion a chain of events that cost the retired three-star Army general his job and continues to this day with Flynn’s turbulent legal saga.

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