Townsville Bulletin

Trump mulls pardon for Flynn

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US PRESIDENT Donald power. But I don’t know that “They tormented him. They y Trump has voiced strong supanybody would have to use destroyed him. But he’s going g port for his former national sethat power. I think he’s exonto come back.” curity adviser Michael Flynn, erated.” Senate Majority Leader r raising speculatio­n that a Mr Trump has long said he Mitch Mcconnell said after don may be coming rrafter par

is considerin­g pardoning the release of the FBI docuFlynn’s lawyers disclosed inFlynn (pictured), who pleaded ments: “If true, it is extremely y ternal FBI documents they guilty to lying to the FBI about troubling. If all this proves to claim show the FBI tried to “inhis conversati­ons with the be true, you will have, certention­ally frame” him. Russian ambassador to the US. tainly, a major, major error on

Mr Trump said he believed The President sent tweets the part of top leadership at the Flynn should now be cleared in supporting Flynn and conFBI, which could well warrant court but said that if that didn’t demning the FBI’S investigaa­dditional charges against t happen, he as president had “a tion of his one-time adviser. them.” different type of power”. “They came at him with 15 Lawyers for Flynn over the e

“It looks to me like Michael buses and he’s standing in the past two days released docuFlynn would be exonerated middle of the highway. What ments they say bolster their albased on everything I see,” Mr they did to this man,” Mr legations that Flynn was set up Trump said. “I’m not the judge, Trump said, without specifying to lie when he was questioned but I have a different type of what he meant. three years ago.

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