DOJ paying Flynn $1.25 million to settle a baseless case of malicious prosecution could set a dangerous precedent [View all]
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Trump’s settlement to Michael Flynn could set a dangerous precedent
While this result is far from just, perhaps more concerning is what it invites others to do.
Mar. 27, 2026, 5:55 PM EDT
By Mary McCord
The Justice Department on Wednesday set an ominous new precedent when it agreed to pay former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn $1.25 million to settle a baseless case of malicious prosecution.
It was also another windfall for a man who was rightly prosecuted and had rightly pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before President Donald Trump’s DOJ dismissed the case and Trump pardoned him during his first term.
The payoff is a miscarriage of justice. Worse, it encourages others who Trump favors — such as the Jan. 6 defendants — to seek similar windfalls that support his efforts to rewrite history.
Transcripts of Flynn’s conversation with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak showed that Flynn had, in fact, asked that Russia not take any action that would “escalate . . . on a tit for tat.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-settlement-michael-flynn-could-215545665.html
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