How Bill Barr is advancing Trump’s quest to become
"president for life"
What the corrupt "Injustice Department’s" move to drop the
case against Michael Flynn really means
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
MAY 13, 2020 8:59AM (UTC)
"A Trump lackey took a major step Thursday toward establishing a Trump dictatorship.
The Justice Department moved to drop the criminal case against confessed felon Michael Flynn. He's the retired Army general and secret foreign agent who was Trump's first national security adviser.
An extraordinary court filing demonstrated that Trump has one standard of justice for his enemies and an entirely different one for his allies. The court action shows how fully Trump has turned our Justice Department into his personal protection agency. Goodbye equal justice under the law.
The 108-page filing is rife with falsehoods and tortured interpretations of established facts. Such is a mendacious necessity since Flynn twice confessed to multiple crimes under oath in open court. It argues the lies Flynn told FBI agents were not "material" to the case against him. The trial court judge already has dismissed that as nonsense.
It also argues that there was no legitimate reason ever existed to investigate Flynn. That is astonishing since Flynn was secretly a well-paid agent of foreign interests while serving as Trump's national security adviser. The claim is all the more remarkable because it is made by an ostensibly Republican administration. Didn't Republican clamor for decades about Russian spies and influence peddling?
Based on all this and more we can now reasonably refer to Trump's Injustice Department.
Trump could have pardoned Flynn. "He was an innocent man," Trump said in a bald-faced lie in front of video cameras Thursday afternoon. "I'm very happy for General Flynn.""
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