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The sentencing memorandum for Michael Flynn doesn't look good for Trump.
The Office of the Special Counsel dropped the sentencing memorandum for Michael Flynn, President Trump’s short-lived national security adviser, on Tuesday night.
It’s only 13 pages, and 6 of those are heavily redacted, but it seems to send a message to Trump: Michael Flynn talked. And he talked a lot.
First, the memo goes out of its way to praise the “significance and usefulness” of Flynn’s assistance. This includes assistance in another criminal investigation that’s separate from the special counsel probe, the subject of which is unfortunately redacted.
That redaction is tantalizing because it makes clear that Flynn has helped with more than just the investigation into collusion — and that a criminal investigation may well be circling ever-nearer to Trump and his inner circle.
Mueller also takes pains to point out that the full scope of Flynn’s cooperation really can’t be known yet because the investigations about which he provided information are still ongoing.
So, even though it is a possibility that the collusion investigation itself might be winding down, there are still more investigations out there. It’s a neat way of reminding Trump that Mueller has a broad charge to pursue any other matters that come out of the collusion investigation.
Everyone already knew that Flynn had lied to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador during the transition, where he asked them to refrain from “escalating the situation in response to sanctions” that had been imposed against Russia. The subtext of that request, of course, was that the Trump administration would go easy on Russia and lift or minimize the sanctions.
Mueller lets Trump know his former adviser Mike Flynn totally squealed