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The Armenian American Museum Young Leaders Council in Glendale, CA. December 13th - 15th at 7:00 PM. Call: (818) 926-8108 Trump under pressure after Mueller's Flynn filing
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Washington (CNN)Michael Flynn's lawyer had it right back in March 2017 -- his client certainly has a story to tell.
That special counsel Robert Mueller clearly agrees but is not ready to share the former national security adviser's tale with the American people cannot be anything but bad news for President Donald Trump and those around him.
Mueller told a judge in a key filing Tuesday that Flynn, a retired general who was a key foreign policy aide during the Trump campaign, provided "substantial" help to his probe into Russia election interference in 2016.
That help was so significant and timely, Mueller said in heavily redacted documents, that Flynn should serve no jail time for lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russia's envoy to the US and his business ties with Turkey.
uesday's documents did little to add to Mueller's mosaic of ties between Trump world and Moscow, given his reticence to prejudice other investigations. But what the filing did have in common with Mueller's past practice was the sowing of new intrigues, open loops and what have become known as "breadcrumbs" that offer tantalizing clues about the direction he is headed.
Mueller's filing to a district court in Washington had been seen as a potential window into his tightly held investigation of whether members of Trump's orbit had cooperated with Russia's interference effort in 2016 and another criminal investigation.
t provided few definitive answers, but its line after line of blacked-out text offered eloquent testimony on the breadth of the Mueller investigation and appears to dispel expectations that he is nearly ready to wrap up. That's because he withheld the most crucial details that would have blown open the case to protect ongoing and future inquiries and potential prosecutions.
"What I think here is Flynn provided information that is allowing Mueller to make a criminal case against someone," Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN's Don Lemon on Tuesday.
"We don't know who that is. We can speculate or not speculate. But there is certainly somebody out there who has a criminal case that could be coming," he said.
Many of Mueller's previous court filings have embroidered a rich narrative about what he knows about the effort by Moscow's spy agencies to disrupt the presidential election, which eventually developed into a preference for Trump over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, a Russia hawk.
Mueller has sought to establish that multiple people around the President had contacts with Russians and their sympathizers and were dishonest about those communications.
Last week, Mueller made a case that Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen was negotiating to build a Trump Tower in Moscow into June 2016 -- long after it was clear that his boss would win the GOP nomination and in contravention of the President's statements that he had no business ties with Russia.
Cohen's own lawyers argued in their filings that he had kept Trump up to speed on his contacts, a factor that raised questions about the President's denials that he knew about other links between people in his inner circle and Russia.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/politics/donald-trump-michael-flynn-mueller-investigation/index.html
