Flynn has since become a hero figure on the pro-Trump right, cast as a decorated patriot victimised by a politically motivated Russia “hoax” investigation of Trump. In late September, a lawyer for Flynn told a judge that she had recently spoken to Trump, and asked him not to pardon her client. The lawyer, Sidney Powell, has appeared alongside lawyers for Trump, including Rudy Giuliani, who are pressing their unfounded case that widespread voting fraud cost Trump the presidential election. But Democrats and legal experts fear that Trump will exercise his pardon power with a brazenness that shatters past precedent. Word of Trump’s intentions comes on a day when Trump presided over the annual White House turkey pardon.

Source: bd News24 November 25, 2020 03:45 UTC