Donald Trump faces a blizzard of lawsuits and even the potential threat of jail when he leaves office next year,as he will lose the legal protections afforded to a sitting president.
You’d think that Trump and his allies would take solace in knowing that he saved the nation from a radical progressive agenda,which a Democratic sweep would have delivered.
The US President's former lawyer also alleges that media figures ran deliberate misinformation campaigns against Trump's political rivals.
The decision keeps the matter at least temporarily alive and rebuffs efforts by both Flynn's lawyers and the Justice Department to force the prosecution to be dropped.
Senator Lindsey Graham said he will make the former special counsel front a Senate Judiciary Committee,after Mueller penned an op-ed rebuking critics of his investigation.
The former special counsel investigating Russian ties in the 2016 Trump election campaign has defended the work of his team after Trump gave clemency to Roger Stone.
The case against Michael Flynn had become a political cause for Trump and his supporters and Trump had signalled a pardon. But the AG short-circuited it.
For the past three years prosecutors maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his dealings with the Russian ambassador.
The records reveal the extent of communications between the two. Assange's Wikileaks published Democratic emails hacked by Russians during the 2016 US presidential election.
The scolding was unusually blunt,with the judge saying the Attorney-General had appeared to make a"calculated attempt"to influence public opinion about the report in ways favourable to Trump.
The disclosure angered Trump,who complained the Democrats would use the information against him.