>Is this why he's not been pardoned as their needs to be something to pardon him for?
Flynn hasn't been pardoned because his case was the lynchpin for DECLAS of FBI documents. He is being dragged through the mud in order to expose the deep state.
DJT came out as a birther in 2011 because he had been selected by the MIL to run in 2016.
MIL generals had been purged by Hussein earlier that year.
They were going to mount a coup but decided to field DJT instead.
They knew Hussein was a renegade. They knew the plans of the adversary and mounted a counter plan fronted by DJT.