Trump triumphant as DOJ drops case against General Flynn, Pelosi thwarted

Conservatives, Republicans, and all who love justice rejoiced this week as the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped all charges against U.S. Army Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) General Michael Flynn.

Flynn had served as the head of the DIA under Obama, was fired for bringing unwelcome knowledge of the world situation to the disgraced 44th president, and subsequently spent a brief tenure as National Security Adviser under President Trump. He resigned under a cloud just a month after Trump took office. This DOJ move exonerates him completely.

Flynn had been investigated in 2017 by a corrupt FBI leadership under then-Director James Comey and was prosecuted by Obama leftovers in the DOJ for refusing to lie to implicate President Trump in political collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential election.

President Trump reacted from the Oval Office Thursday afternoon, “He was an innocent man… Now, in my book, he’s an even greater warrior,” while saying of the Obama administration, “They’re human scum […] It’s treason.”

The announcement came after a court filing which “considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information.” DOJ officials said that Flynn’s interview by the FBI was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn” and was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”

Thursday morning, the top DOJ prosecutor in the case, Brandon Van Grack, suddenly quit the case in a brief filing with the court. He didn’t want to be around the obvious fallout from his prosecutorial malpractice.

Van Grack has been under suspicion for stating to a federal court that he had turned over all relevant information on Flynn. Though recently a large amount of exculpatory documents surfaced, much to the lawyer’s probable dismay, to prove him a liar. Thus he held back evidence he knew would clear an innocent man. That is the kind of man Mr. Van Grack apparently is and likely will remain.

U.S. attorney Jeff Jensen, who reviewed the case, last week recommended U.S. Attorney General William Barr drop the case and finished the recommendation in an official document earlier his week. “Through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case. I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed,” said Jensen.

Flynn attorney Sidney Powell told Fox News last week that Flynn paid his first law firm, Covington & Burling, approximately $3.5 million. The cash was largely wasted, as they rolled over for the prosecution. Flynn had to sell his house to pay his legal bills. Reports noted last year that Flynn had more than $4.6 million in unpaid legal bills up to 2019.

The victory on this case for the president, and the loss on this for Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Jerry Nadler, almost cannot be overstated. An innocent man and long-time uniformed servant of his country was prosecuted for refusing to lie, for refusing to take part in an unarmed coup against the duly elected president of the United States.

Now, through civil means and other measures, perhaps General Flynn can find some real justice and those who unfairly and corruptly persecuted him themselves can be brought to justice.