Year of Vindication, Part 2: Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn

Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, leaves the federal court with his lawyer Sidney Powell following a status conference with Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington on Sept. 10, 2019. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta

Commentary

President Donald Trump surprised everyone on March 15 by suddenly tweeting about a potential “full pardon” for his former national security adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

An immediate furor erupted over Trump’s tweet for a variety of reasons.

The country is currently in the midst of a serious national emergency caused by the CCP virus, so plenty of voices have been yelling that Trump needs to be focusing on that instead of on Flynn’s case. One such example was a tweet by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).

The chief reason for the commotion is this, however: For more than three years, Flynn’s scalp hanging from the belt of Robert Mueller’s special counsel team has been considered a huge trophy in both the Democrats’ and the mainstream media’s war against the current president.

The sudden introduction of the idea that Flynn might not be “scalped” after all would be a most bitter pill for the “The Trump Resistance” to swallow.

But the “official story” of how Flynn’s scalp came to be taken has raised many serious questions since he entered his guilty plea in the courtroom of Judge Rudolph Contreras on Dec. 1, 2017. Very serious accusations of official misconduct by key Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI people involved in his case have been leveled, based on publicly available evidence.

We knew very little about Spygate on Dec. 1, 2017, the day Flynn entered that guilty plea in Contreras’s courtroom. That is no longer the case in March of 2020.

We’ve since learned much about the FBI’s use of media contacts to sow strategic leaks in the national news targeting Flynn as a key part of the Russiagate hoax. This forced the general’s resignation as Trump’s NSA.

These same strategic leaks were used to instigate a perjury investigation against Flynn, which culminated in the FBI handing off its case to Mueller’s special counsel’s office. The prosecutors moved so quickly to secure a plea bargain with Flynn’s former lawyers that no official indictment was ever made in this case.

The next development that is being awaited in this long-running fiasco of a case is for Judge Emmet Sullivan to decide if the general can withdraw his plea of guilty.

One of two things is going to happen: