Michael Flynn was first investigated in secret discussions he had with the Russian envoy to Washington
Washington:
The Washington Court of Appeal ordered that the false statements against the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, be dropped on Wednesday, granting the White House a victory in a case that was at the heart of the matter. investigation into Russian interference.
The court approved Attorney General Bill Barr’s extraordinary decision to drop charges against Flynn even after he pleaded guilty twice to lying to FBI investigators, setting aside a lower court judge who was ready to condemn Flynn.
Barr’s decision to drop the charges on May 7 sparked an open split in the Department of Justice, confronting him with the judge in the case and the department’s own prosecutors.
The move, more than three years after Flynn’s first investigation into secret talks he had with Russia’s envoy to Washington, drew allegations that Barr was making Trump’s political appeals.
But Barr’s decision to close the case said that the original FBI investigation into Flynn, which was part of the large-scale counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, n had no “legitimate basis for inquiry”.
After the court announcement, Trump, who had previously hinted that he could forgive the former general, tweeted that the decision was “excellent.”
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