Retired Lt. Gen.
Michael Flynn’s guilty plea Friday signals that he already has provided
federal prosecutors with incriminating information about President
Donald Trump or senior members of his inner circle, marking an explosive
turn in the investigation into whether Trump’s 2016 campaign
collaborated in Russia’s election meddling, legal experts said.
The former national security adviser’s plea to a single count of lying to FBI agents, and the disclosure that he is cooperating with investigators, means Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has secured the inside witness he has sought for months in his sprawling inquiry.
Flynn, a former three-star Army general, admitted that he lied about multiple contacts he had with Russia’s U.S. ambassador in the weeks before Trump was sworn in as president. The disclosure provided concrete evidence that Trump’s transition team twice sought secretly to undermine U.S. foreign policy decisions of President Barack Obama, even influencing Russia’s decision not to immediately strike back after Obama imposed sanctions in retaliation for the Kremlin’s attempt to tilt the election to Trump.
By:Writter
Birbal Babu<<
The former national security adviser’s plea to a single count of lying to FBI agents, and the disclosure that he is cooperating with investigators, means Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has secured the inside witness he has sought for months in his sprawling inquiry.
Flynn, a former three-star Army general, admitted that he lied about multiple contacts he had with Russia’s U.S. ambassador in the weeks before Trump was sworn in as president. The disclosure provided concrete evidence that Trump’s transition team twice sought secretly to undermine U.S. foreign policy decisions of President Barack Obama, even influencing Russia’s decision not to immediately strike back after Obama imposed sanctions in retaliation for the Kremlin’s attempt to tilt the election to Trump.
By:Writter
Birbal Babu<<
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