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While people are concentrating on matters of life and death with the pandemic, Trump pulled a fast one. (Remember how he tried to shut down the coronavirus task force earlier this week to shut up Dr. Fauci then, because he got so much negative feedback, had to reinstate it claiming he had no idea it was so popular.) He had the DOJ drop the case against Michael Flynn, who had already pleaded guilty to charges. Trump acts at his most corrupt while other people are too absorbed with struggling to live and hopes to go undetected. This is unprecedented.
Remember, Mike Flynn acted as an agent for Russia, without registering, while Barack Obama was still President. He tried to reassure the Russians that they could ignore President Obama's sanctions because Trump would soon be in office.Then he lied to the FBI about it and pleaded guilty to this in court.These are serious charges.
"Following the Justice Department’s decision to drop the charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty of lying to the FBI, Attorney General William Barr defended the reversal in an interview with CBS News on Thursday. '[The FBI] did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Flynn at that stage,' Barr told CBS News, adding that a 'crime cannot be established here.' Asked whether it was still true that Flynn lied during an interview with the FBI in 2016, Barr deflected: 'Well, people sometimes plead to things that turn out not to be crimes.'
Trump had previously hinted that he was considering a pardon for Flynn. After denying he was doing Trump’s bidding, Barr was asked how history would remember this move. 'History is written by the winners, so it largely depends on who is writing the history,' he said with a sly smile".
www.thedailybeast.com
Remember, Mike Flynn acted as an agent for Russia, without registering, while Barack Obama was still President. He tried to reassure the Russians that they could ignore President Obama's sanctions because Trump would soon be in office.Then he lied to the FBI about it and pleaded guilty to this in court.These are serious charges.
"Following the Justice Department’s decision to drop the charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty of lying to the FBI, Attorney General William Barr defended the reversal in an interview with CBS News on Thursday. '[The FBI] did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Flynn at that stage,' Barr told CBS News, adding that a 'crime cannot be established here.' Asked whether it was still true that Flynn lied during an interview with the FBI in 2016, Barr deflected: 'Well, people sometimes plead to things that turn out not to be crimes.'
Trump had previously hinted that he was considering a pardon for Flynn. After denying he was doing Trump’s bidding, Barr was asked how history would remember this move. 'History is written by the winners, so it largely depends on who is writing the history,' he said with a sly smile".

Bill Barr on Flynn: ‘History Is Written by the Winners’
“[The FBI] did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Flynn at that stage,” Barr told CBS News, adding that a “crime cannot be established here.”