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Trump legal team readies attack on Flynns credibility
President Trumps legal team plans to cast former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior aides of any wrongdoing, according to three people familiar with the strategy.
The approach would mark a sharp break from Trumps previously sympathetic posture toward Flynn, whom he called a wonderful man when Flynn was ousted from the White House in February. Earlier this month, the president did not rule out a possible pardon for Flynn, who is cooperating with special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Attorneys for Trump and his top advisers have privately expressed confidence that Flynn does not have any evidence that could implicate the president or his White House team. But since Flynns cooperation agreement with prosecutors was made public earlier this month, the administration has been strategizing how to neutralize him in case the former national security adviser does make any claims.
Flynn is the most senior former Trump adviser known to be providing information to Muellers team. The lenient terms of his plea agreement suggest he has promised significant information to investigators, legal experts said.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-legal-team-readies-attack-on-flynns-credibility/2017/12/27/bc601324-ea78-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.d8abd37fb9fa
President Trumps legal team plans to cast former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior aides of any wrongdoing, according to three people familiar with the strategy.
The approach would mark a sharp break from Trumps previously sympathetic posture toward Flynn, whom he called a wonderful man when Flynn was ousted from the White House in February. Earlier this month, the president did not rule out a possible pardon for Flynn, who is cooperating with special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Attorneys for Trump and his top advisers have privately expressed confidence that Flynn does not have any evidence that could implicate the president or his White House team. But since Flynns cooperation agreement with prosecutors was made public earlier this month, the administration has been strategizing how to neutralize him in case the former national security adviser does make any claims.
Flynn is the most senior former Trump adviser known to be providing information to Muellers team. The lenient terms of his plea agreement suggest he has promised significant information to investigators, legal experts said.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-legal-team-readies-attack-on-flynns-credibility/2017/12/27/bc601324-ea78-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.d8abd37fb9fa
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Let the fireworks begin: "Trump legal team readies attack on Flynns credibility" (Original Post)
MelissaB
Dec 2017
OP
How many will be thrown under the bus in an attempt to save drumpf's ass?
democratisphere
Dec 2017
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. How many will be thrown under the bus in an attempt to save drumpf's ass?
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,789 posts)2. Rank ametuers compared to Mueller's team.
Trump's lawyers should go back to New York. He is being poorly served and are way in over their heads.
longship
(40,416 posts)5. I mean, they have that blathering idiot Jay Sekulow!
Who did church law garbage for babbling Pat Robertson.
But by all means, a top drawer team, Mr. Drumpf.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)3. Shit's getin' real....
it seems.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. Oh my,
this is going to be real interesting. Can you imagine the number of leaks that will ooze out of this.