Trump’s for­mer secu­ri­ty advi­sor Fly­nn first plead­ed guilty to lying to the US Fed­er­al Police FBI in the Rus­sia affair, and lat­er he wants to with­draw his tes­ti­mo­ny. Now the US pres­i­dent has announced a “full par­don” for Fly­nn. US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has par­doned his for­mer Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Advi­sor Michael Fly­nn. “It is my great hon­or to announce that Gen­er­al Michael T. Fly­nn has received a full par­don,” Trump wrote on Twit­ter. The retired gen­er­al was involved in the Rus­sia affair about pos­si­ble elec­toral influ­ence from Rus­sia. Trump could par­don oth­er peo­ple before the end of his term on Jan­u­ary 20. In his tweet, Trump con­grat­u­lat­ed Fly­nn and his fam­i­ly and wrote this Thurs­day, with a view to the upcom­ing hol­i­day, “I know you are going to have a real­ly fan­tas­tic Thanksgiving!”

Fly­nn had only served as Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Advi­sor for just over three weeks in 2017. He lat­er admit­ted in the course of the inves­ti­ga­tion into pos­si­ble Russ­ian influ­ence on the US pres­i­den­tial elec­tion in 2016 that he had lied to the FBI Fed­er­al Police. He is also said to have lied to Vice Pres­i­dent Mike Pence on the mat­ter. Fly­nn was the only one to plead guilty to FBI spe­cial inves­ti­ga­tor Robert Mueller’s inves­ti­ga­tions. In Jan­u­ary, Fly­nn filed a motion to with­draw his con­fes­sion just before a ver­dict was expect­ed in his tri­al. In May, the Min­istry of Jus­tice called for an end to the pro­ceed­ings in a high­ly unusu­al step. One was not con­vinced that the hear­ing of Fly­nn in Jan­u­ary 2017 was based on a legit­i­mate inves­ti­ga­tion, it said, among oth­er things. Trump then hailed Fly­nn as a “hero”. The case was stuck in a fed­er­al court after the con­tro­ver­sial advance of the Min­istry of Jus­tice. The judge respon­si­ble there had not agreed to drop the alle­ga­tions against Flynn.

Fly­nn feels treat­ed unfairly

Trump has long con­sid­ered par­don­ing his con­fi­dante. In March he announced that he was con­sid­er­ing a “full par­don”. In Trump’s view, Fly­nn has been treat­ed unfair­ly by the judi­cia­ry and the FBI. Trump repeat­ed­ly com­plained that Fly­nn was being pros­e­cut­ed by the judi­cia­ry. “You accused Fly­nn of lying and he did­n’t lie,” Trump said in an inter­view around Octo­ber. Pri­or to the Novem­ber pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, the issue of the Fly­nn legal bat­tle, which Repub­li­cans used to incite their grass­roots against an alleged estab­lish­ment con­spir­a­cy, had become the sub­ject of dis­cus­sion. Crit­ics should see Flynn’s par­don as fur­ther evi­dence of their alle­ga­tion that Trump is using his office to pro­tect friends and part­ners from pros­e­cu­tion. House spokes­woman Demo­c­rat Nan­cy Pelosi accused Trump of abuse of pow­er for the ben­e­fit of a con­vict­ed crim­i­nal: “Flynn’s actions have rep­re­sent­ed a seri­ous and dan­ger­ous vio­la­tion of our nation­al secu­ri­ty.” The par­don is fur­ther evi­dence that Trump does not respect the rule of law. US House Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee chair­man Adam Schiff wrote on Twit­ter: “Don­ald Trump has repeat­ed­ly abused his par­don to reward friends and pro­tect those who have cov­ered him.”

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