By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Revelations that lawyers for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn have stopped communicating with President Trump’s legal team over the special counsel investigation is a good indication that he’s cooperating or negotiating a deal, legal experts said.
The New York Times first reported Thursday that Flynn’s lawyers have stopped sharing information with Trump’s attorneys about the investigation led by special counsel, Robert Mueller, whose legal team is trying to determine whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
Flynn has been a top target of the investigation and resigned as national security adviser after acknowledging he had secretly discussed sanction with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
“I negotiated a cooperation deal for a target with Mueller’s office when he was U.S. Atty and lemme tell ya, he’s not gonna give one to Flynn unless he implicates someone up the ladder. That means Kushner, Don Jr., or Big Daddy,” Norm Eisner, a former White House Special Counsel for Ethics, tweeted.
The Washington Post wrote, “If Flynn is indeed cooperating, Trump is in big trouble.”
The Post continued:
That’s because if Flynn is cooperating, it can only be because he has information to offer Mueller on someone more important than himself. That’s how it works. And who is more important than Flynn? Only a very small number of people. Among those implicated in this whole affair, that group may consist of Jared Kushner and Trump, and that’s about it.
You’ll recall that Flynn was supposedly fired because he lied to Vice President Pence about his contacts with Russian officials during the campaign and the transition, claiming he had only exchanged pleasantries with them when in fact they had discussed substantive policy matters, something Pence then repeated to the media. This was always an odd explanation for the firing. Even more odd was the fact that immediately, President Trump began telling anyone who would listen what a great guy Michael Flynn is and how unfair the whole mess was to him.
