He was forced to resign after only 22 days in office

Trump intends to pardon his former adviser Michael Flynn

Flynn claims to be a victim.

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The outgoing US President Donald Trump intends to pardon his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who agreed in 2017 to admit to charges of lying to the FBI about his contacts with a Russian diplomat, according to what US media reported. The day before yesterday.

Axios and the New York Times quoted sources, without revealing their identity, that Trump intends to include Flynn on the list of people who will be pardoned in the last days of his presidency.

The secret talks that Michael Flynn held with the Russian ambassador in Washington, in December 2016, before Donald Trump was installed as president, was a central focus of the subsequent investigation by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller into suspicions of collusion between the Trump campaign team and Russia.

After more than two years of investigation, Robert Mueller's team has found no evidence of such collusion.

Flynn was forced to resign just 22 days after taking over as Trump's national security advisor.

But the president has always considered the investigation a political targeting, and that Michael Flynn, a former army general and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is a "good man."

Secret talks

After participating in Donald Trump's campaign, Michael Flynn held secret talks with the Russian ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak, in December 2016.

After he became a national security adviser, he was questioned by the Federal Police on January 24, 2017, but he hid these contacts and soon had to resign due to also lying to Vice President Mike Pence.

In 2017, Michael Flynn agreed to plead guilty to a charge of perjury and to cooperate with the investigation of suspected collusion with Russia.

Last year, when he was threatened with six months in prison, he changed his lawyer and defense strategy, and has since demanded that the measure be reversed, saying he was the victim of manipulation.

Exceptionally, the US Department of Justice withdrew its complaint against Michael Flynn in May, saying that the investigation against the former general had no "legitimate basis", and that his statements "even if they were false, had no significance."

Thus the ministry provided a political victory to Trump, who repeated that Michael Flynn was "innocent," but a federal judge requested judicial review of the case.

An amnesty by Trump would lead to the withdrawal of this case from the jurisdiction of the courts.

In 2017, Michael Flynn agreed to plead guilty to a charge of perjury and to cooperate with the investigation of suspected collusion with Russia.

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