President Trump told reporters on Thursday that he would definitely consider bringing Gen Michael Flynn back into his administration.
A reporter asked the president if he would pardon Gen Flynn and then bring him back with the administration.
Trump responded by saying he did not think there would be a need to exonerate him after the new revelations about the FBI.
President Trump did say that he would definitely consider bringing Flynn back in some capacity.
Flynn had been the National Security Advisor before the FBI lied about him in order to indict him, in an effort to get dirt on President Trump.
Trump said:
“General Flynn was under enormous pressure and it was an artificial pressure because what they did to Genera Flynn was a disgrace, it was a total disgrace, it’s shocking. What they tried to do to destroy him and to hurt this presidency was — there has never been anything like it. An absolute disgrace.”
“Well, it looks like Michael Flynn would be exonerated based on everything I see. I’m not the judge, but I have a different type of power but I don’t know that anybody would have to use that power I think he’s exonerated. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
“I think he’s a fine man, I think it’s terrible what they did to him. I would certainly consider it, yeah, I would. I think he is a fine man. I think he has got a great family.”
Fox News reported:
The handwritten notes — written by the FBI’s former head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap after a meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Fox News is told — further suggested that agents planned in the alternative to get Flynn “to admit to breaking the Logan Act” when he spoke to then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition period.
The Logan Act is an obscure statute that has never been used in a criminal prosecution; enacted in 1799 in an era before telephones, it was intended to prevent individuals from falsely claiming to represent the United States government abroad.
