By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com
Here’s a flash for you: A presidential pardon does no expunge the record of a man who has admitted to lying twice to the FBI and the vice president of the United States.
He won’t do time. That’s the effect of the pardon that Donald Trump today issued for retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a one-time (and short-time) national security adviser to the Trump administration.
Flynn’s acceptance of the pardon, of course, also implies guilt for the crime he admitted to committing.
Flynn disgraced his uniform by lying to the FBI about what he knew about the Russian efforts to attack our electoral system in 2016. He did it again by lying to VP Mike Pence.
No presidential pardon doesn’t restore Michael Flynn’s reputation, which he plowed asunder all by himself. Still, it’s a disgrace that Donald Trump would issue it.
Entrapment and threatening his family!!!
Does this sound familiar? Compare the two. And don’t compare commute to pardon. Compare the crimes and threat to society.
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