For the past three years there was a drumbeat of Patriots suggesting that Trump Team Transition member Gen. Michael Flynn receive a presidential pardon from Trump for the prosecutorial misconduct, bias and revenge by the Obama Administration. Even after Atty Sidney Powell took over and brilliantly represented Gen. Flynn, there were calls to stop the bleeding and just pardon him. I thought this was a bad move for several reasons.
The best argument for letting the car play out was that Powell made several Motions before the Court that had legs: She wanted to examine Mifsud’s cell phones, she became aware of a side deal between prosecutors and Flynn’s former law firm that was not disclosed to the Judge, and best of all, the shenanigans with the 302s from Flynn’s ambush interview. This resulted an a Brady Act motion because exculpatory evidence wasn’t provided (while claiming in Court filings that Brady material was) This last lie may have never seen the inside of a courtroom had Trump pardoned Flynn even six months ago.
Because of Sidney Powell’s extraordinary tenacity, we know the depths of the FBI’s biased investigation of Gen Flynn. For the same reason, Roger Stone must be patient in order to see how an appellate court will view the judge’s bias in the case, while also allowing time for the DNC-RussIs hacking to play out.