The following article by Morgan Chalfant was posted on the Hill website December 3, 2017:
President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the United States.
Flynn, a former Obama-era defense official turned surrogate for Trump’s campaign, is now cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
His plea deal came about a month after Mueller unveiled charges against former Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Richard Gates and revealed that George Papadopoulos, a low-level campaign adviser, had pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents. Continue reading “Five takeaways from Flynn’s guilty plea”