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In what appears to be troubling news - for @RealDonaldTrump - special counsel Robert Mueller is recommending NO prison time for Trump's ex-national security advisor Michael Flynn - because Flynn has been extrordinarily helpful with the overall investigation /1
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In a highly-anticipated legal filing tonight - it is attached here - Mueller and his team recommend no prison time for Flynn, because of his "substantial assistance" to the overall investigation assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5425…
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Flynn was fired as Trump's national security adviser in Feb. 2017 - three weeks into the job - after the White House said he lied about his contacts with then-Russian Ambassador Kislyak. One of five Trump aides to plead guilty, he has, apparently, given Mueller everything
The bad part for Trump - perhaps quite bad - is how Mueller notes, for the first time, how helpful Flynn has been with its “investigation concerning links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign.”- i.e. collusion
Tonight's news may also be bad for Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law. Flynn, who we now know has been very cooperative with Mueller, attended a Dec. 2016 meeting w/Kushner - during which Kushner, reports say, proposed a secret comms backchannel to Russia's ambassador
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First film screened in the new White House movie theater - this day in 1942 - and it was a good one
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World War II was over and America stood astride the world like a colossus; never again would it be so utterly dominant: half the world's GDP, untouched by the war itself - the only country with the bomb
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Two Presidents died on this day. Modest men from the Midwest, each had been VP for just a few months before ascending to the top job. Harry Truman, the 33d POTUS (1945-53), died in 1972; Gerald Ford, the 38th (1974-77) in 2006
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