President Donald Trump applauded an appeals court’s ruling on Wednesday that allowed the Justice Department to drop the criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser.
“Great! Appeals Court Upholds Justice Departments [sic] Request To Drop Criminal Case Against General Michael Flynn!” Trump tweeted.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan must immediately throw out the case after the Justice Department made the shocking decision to end it last month, even though Flynn had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Trump had been bashing the case for months, similar to his attacks on other criminal cases involving his other associates, such as Roger Stone.
Proof that the DOJ’s reversal and move to drop the charges against Flynn were in no way political.
Remember when LBJ’s justice department dropped the charges against Lee Harvey Oswald and then Jack Ruby?
Again was this the 3 panel of appeals court judges and not the fill bench?
For a guy whose has had almost every EO and policy change challenged in state and federal court since taking office you’d think he’d understand the court structure by now.
May this be brought up before the en banc hearing as proof-positive this was never about Executive prosecutorial powers, checks, or balances.
Traitors applauding traitors. Other than that, nothing new here other than the realization that corruption has been profoundly manifest in all branches of our government.
It’s exactly what Putin wanted.