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DrStaunch 124 points ago +125 / -1

Perhaps freeing up legal resources?

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Cincinattus1776 179 points ago +179 / -0

It let's Sidney Powell focus more on her case, and it frees up Flynn to take up a new position. Flynn was his first national security advisor before the feds hit him.

Flynn also very well might know where the bodies are buried.

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pmurTJdlanoD 53 points ago +53 / -0

Can he serve now that he’s been pardoned? How does he maximize his vengeance here

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Haz85 70 points ago +70 / -0

A president or governor may grant a full (unconditional) pardon or a conditional pardon. The granting of an unconditional pardon fully restores an individual's civil rights forfeited upon conviction of a crime and restores the person's innocence as though he or she had never committed a crime. This means that a recipient of a pardon may regain the right to vote and to hold various positions of public trust.

RESTORES THE PERSON'S INNOCENCE AS THOUGH HE OR SHE HAD NEVER COMMITTED A CRIME

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thuggishruggishtrump 20 points ago +20 / -0

I would like to assume Trump gave him an unconditional pardon right?

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LittleDolfin59 6 points ago +6 / -0

Which he never did and the DOJ dropped the charges anyway. Sullivan is a dickhead.

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twodumb2live 4 points ago +4 / -0

He was also never sentenced, right? Sidney files a motion to withdraw his plea, then the prosecutor filed a motion to dismiss the charges and the case has been in limbo.

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philandy 2 points ago +2 / -0

Clinton Foundmasturbation.

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BigIronBigIron 28 points ago +28 / -0

Flynn can talk now.

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Moonshot2020 4 points ago +4 / -0

Was he still gagged and does that now change?

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BigIronBigIron 3 points ago +3 / -0

If you're under prosecution, it's generally best to shut up. But there was no official gag order.

Mr. Jekielek: With respect to General Flynn, he’s been very, very quiet over quite a number of years. Recently, there were a few short interviews.

Ms. Powell: Yeah, they weren’t really interviews. He called into a few radio shows, before everything got turned upside down with Judge Sullivan not signing the order, just to say thank you to the American public and the radio hosts in particular, who have been so supportive of him and helped raise money for the defense fund. We’ve been operating off the generosity of the American people. A lot of the donations have been what I would call the widow’s mite [small but powerful].

Mr. Jekielek: Fascinating, and so is he under a gag order?

Ms. Powell: No, there’s no real gag order. But discretion being the better part of valor, he is full of valor; he has chosen to try to let the system work its way out. That’s what I’ve been determined to see happen to make the justice system itself work, and to pound on the Department of Justice to do the right thing here and restore its own reputation by moving to dismiss and acknowledge the wrong conduct of its agents and attorneys.

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lefkoslykos 9 points ago +9 / -0

It allows sidney to represent trump

Without a conflict of interest

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JoePedo 7 points ago +7 / -0

Great analysis.

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YourTendiesWillBurn 5 points ago +5 / -0

Let's hope he knows a good spot to stick a few more.

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RussianLimbaugh 6 points ago +6 / -0

This really might be the case. If so, Flynn has given even more than he already has to this Great Nation. Thank God for men like Flynn, President Trump; and women like Powell!