Michael Flynn Is Suing The Government for $50 Million

[Nevilledog]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/michael-flynn-lawsuit-government-50-million-1234692512/

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FORMER TRUMP NATIONAL Security Advisor and retired US. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is suing the U.S. government on grounds of wrongful prosecution, according to a new legal filing obtained by Rolling Stone. He is seeking $50 million in damages.

The lawsuit stems from a 2016 FBI investigation during the Obama administration over Flynn’s suspected ties to Russia. In 2017, Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI regarding his association with Russian contacts. Shortly after the 2020 election, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) received a pardon from Trump.

“This lawsuit seeks accountability and damages against the United States for these wrongs committed against General Flynn through its agents and agencies,” reads the filing, calling his prosecution “wrongful and malicious” and a “gross abuse of process.”

The filing states that as a result of the government’s actions Flynn was “falsely branded as a traitor to his country, lost at least tens of millions of dollars of business opportunities and future lifetime earning potential, [and] was maliciously prosecuted and spent substantial monies in his own defense.”

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[Samrob]

1. He received a pardon which means he was guilty. Throw the case out.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. +1

[ratchiweenie]

10. Exactly. By accepting a pardon he admitted guilt. Case dismissed.

[former9thward]

18. No it does not mean that legally.

Both Ford and Carter pardoned thousands of draft dodgers, resisters, and people who went to Canada. None of them admitted any guilt. Ford pardoned Nixon. He never admitted any guilt and was not even charged.

[ratchiweenie]

20. I didn't know that. I thought that be accepting a pardon the person automatically

admitted guilt. Thanks.

[fleabiscuit]

17. +1

[BigmanPigman]

2. Your time is gonna come!

Just like the rest of the traitors to the US. Hanging him is too good for them!

[Tetrachloride]

3. Take a deposition in pre-trial.

[padah513]

14. Lol

I don't think he thought this one all the way through

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Entitled traitor

[SheltieLover]

5. Still drawing a military pension, too!

Who the hell promoted this pos to general?

[former9thward]

19. Obama promoted him to Lt. General in 2011.

Which is the rank he had when he retired.

[Emile]

7. Throw the case out and exile him to Russia!

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Lock him up.

Traitor.

[SouthernDem4ever]

9. Sure Flynn, we all know you're a guilty POS

If that Orange Vomitous hadn't pardoned you, you would be where you belong, in jail.

[fightforfreedom]

11. He pled guilty! He is nuts.

He doesn't have to worry about future earnings from where he is going, A prison cell. Fucking traitor.

[Silent3]

13. What's even more nuts is that we don't have a process to QUICKLY toss crap like this out

I am so sick and tired of how bastards like this and their bastard lawyers play our legal system.

[emulatorloo]

15. ++++ I'm guessing it is a fundraising stunt for his crazy q-anon "christian" scam he's got going.

He pled guilty and he knows he’s guilty

[bluesbassman]

12. I hope he and his attorneys are sanctioned for this crap.

Seems to be the very definition of a frivolous lawsuit. He plead guilty AND accepted a pardon. His actions caused him to lose future earning potential. I guess co-billing with Kyle Rittenhouse at tent meetings doesn’t pay what he thought it would. POS traitor and disgrace to the uniform.

[slightlv]

16. I want this guy recalled to service

just so he can experience military justice, have his pension ripped from him and then be tossed into a Leavenworth prison cell for an unspecified number of years. Even though it would put me in the same city as him, I will willingly suffer the sacrifice just to have him locked away from civilized society. TPUSA should be declared a terror cell and be put on the same list as ISIS, IMNSHO. Their aims are the same as ISIS, the complete and utter destruction of the democracy of the United States of America. They want to turn the U.S. into a theocracy, ala Iran, with their brand of Dominionism as the government and law over us, with Flynn at the head of that law enforcement. I honestly don't think they even really care about Trump. They just see him as the means to an end. He's too dirty. Their belief is whatever is done to achieve their ends is okay as long as it is done in god's name. That means theft, lies, murder, etc. Trump fits right into to that thoughtform.

In this way, TPUSA is worse than CPAC ever thought to be. And it -should- be put on the terror list!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Why Michael Flynn's new lawsuit looks like an audacious stunt

This is a very stupid lawsuit

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/michael-flynns-new-lawsuit-looks-audacious-stunt-rcna74161?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=640a700c6ee8d70001dbafa6&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

To appreciate what makes this so extraordinary, let’s revisit our earlier coverage and review how we arrived at this point.

It was just a few years ago when federal prosecutors charged Flynn, accusing him of lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian government, lying to investigators about being a paid foreign agent, and acting illegally as an unregistered foreign agent while working on Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Flynn soon after admitted he lied, twice pleaded guilty — under oath and in open court — and became a cooperating witness with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Flynn then changed his lawyers, at which point he stopped helping the Mueller probe and decided he was no longer guilty of the crimes he’d already pleaded guilty to. Soon after, then-Attorney General Bill Barr took an interest in the case, and the Justice Department announced it was dropping all of the charges against Trump’s former aide.

As difficult as it was to believe, Barr’s DOJ concluded that it could not prove Flynn was guilty of the crimes to which he’d already pleaded guilty. (A retired judge examined what transpired and ultimately accused the Justice Department of exercising a “gross abuse of prosecutorial power.”)....

It’s against this backdrop that Flynn is now suing, claiming federal law enforcement subjected him to malicious prosecution when they charged him with crimes he had twice pleaded guilty to in open court.