Mr Trump tweeted: "It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Mr Flynn is the second associate of Mr Trump's convicted in the FBI's investigation of his 2016 presidential election campaign's ties with Russia to be granted clemency by the president. Mr Trump commuted the sentence of long-time confidant Roger Stone just days before he was to report to prison. Mr Trump himself has repeatedly spoken warmly about Mr Flynn, even though special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors once praised him as a model co-operator in their probe into ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. In the months since, a three-judge panel's decision ordering Mr Sullivan to dismiss the case was overturned by the full appeals court, which sent the matter back to Mr Sullivan.

Source: Irish Independent November 26, 2020 02:32 UTC