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Michael Flynn

July 2022

  • Michael Flynn speaks at a campaign event in Ohio in April. Flynn was in the vanguard of Trump loyalists promoting falsehoods about Joe Biden’s 2020 win.

    ‘It’s a sham’: fears over Trump loyalists’ ‘election integrity’ drive

    Roger Stone and Michael Flynn involved in ‘Operation Eagles Wings’, push to train activists in election canvassing and poll-watching

June 2022

  • Global Vision Bible Church, Nashville, USA - 30 Aug 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by AFF-USA/REX/Shutterstock (10760436aa) Roger Stone, Pastor Greg Locke and wife Tai Locke Global Vision Bible Church, Nashville, USA - 30 Aug 2020

    Roger Stone and Michael Flynn under fire over rallies ‘distorting Christianity’

    Prominent Christian leaders accuse Trump allies of spreading misinformation about election and Covid, while distorting Christian teachings at ReAwaken America events

January 2022

  • Michael Flynn,Rudy Giuliani<br>FILE - Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Flynn, left, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, right, wait for the start of the first presidential debate between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, in Hempstead, N.Y. The University of Rhode Island is revoking honorary degrees bestowed upon Flynn and Giuliani. The university’s board of trustees voted Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, to revoke the degrees following internal deliberations. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, Fie)

    Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn to see honorary university degrees revoked

  • Flynn and Bannon have focused new energy on increasing conservative influence by recruiting more allies for key local posts.

    Bannon and allies bid to expand pro-Trump influence in local US politics

December 2021

  • FILE PHOTO: Former national security adviser Flynn arrives for sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington<br>FILE PHOTO: Former national security adviser Michael Flynn exits a vehicle as he arrives for his sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., December 18, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

    Michael Flynn sues Capitol attack committee in bid to block subpoena

    Lawsuit filed by longtime adviser to Donald Trump is the latest in a flood of litigation by targets of the committee

November 2021

  • Michael Flynn<br>FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. Election officials and experts are raising alarms about the private fundraising surrounding efforts to expand Republican ballot reviews to more states former President Donald Trump falsely claims he won. While some fundraising details have come to light, information about who is donating the money and how it's being spent is largely exempt from public disclosure. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Michael Flynn appears to have called QAnon ‘total nonsense’ despite his links

    Trump ally reportedly says conspiracy theory a ‘disinformation campaign’ created by CIA and the left, apparent recording reveals
  • Michael Flynn<br>FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. Election officials and experts are raising alarms about the private fundraising surrounding efforts to expand Republican ballot reviews to more states former President Donald Trump falsely claims he won. While some fundraising details have come to light, information about who is donating the money and how it's being spent is largely exempt from public disclosure. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Trump ally Michael Flynn condemned over call for ‘one religion’ in US

    Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, says ‘These people hate the US constitution’
  • Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, gestures as he departs a campaign event where he endorsed New York City mayoral candidate Fernando Mateo on Thursday, June 3, 2021, in Staten Island, N.Y. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

    Lawyer John Eastman and Michael Flynn among six subpoenaed by Capitol attack panel

    Panel seeks documents and testimony from legal scholar said to have outlined scenarios for overturning election

September 2021

  • Michael Flynn with Donald Trump in 2016. The tour has touted the key role of Flynn, who was pardoned by the then president late last year after being found guilty of lying to the FBI.

    Trump loyalists team up with anti-vax doctors for ‘health and freedom’ tour

    Michael Flynn a key speaker on ‘ReAwaken America’ tour that critics say has profoundly negative effects for democracy and public health

April 2021

  • President Trump Pardons Michael Flynn, New York, USA - 25 Nov 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Beowulf Sheehan/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock (11059265a) President Trump has pardoned his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who spent years enmeshed in a legal war with the government that sprang from the Russia investigation. Trump announced the news on Twitter as Americans prepared to observe the Thanksgiving holiday this week. FILE IMAGE SHOT ON: September 12, 2016, New York, New York, USA: MICHAEL FLYNN, retired United States Army Lieutenant General who was the 18th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and was the 25th National Security Advisor. President Trump Pardons Michael Flynn, New York, USA - 25 Nov 2020

    Michael Flynn ignored official warnings about receiving foreign payments

    Trump’s former national security adviser was warned about taking foreign money as far back as 2014, the defense department’s inspector general has found, undermining claims of political persecution

December 2020

  • Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, earlier this month.

    Romney decries martial law discussion in Trump's White House

    Utah Republican says president leaving office ‘with a whole series of things that are so nutty and loopy’

26 November 2020

  • Donald Trump<br>FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump listens during an event in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. For the past four years, Trump has enjoyed special status not given to regular users on Twitter and Facebook even as he used his perch atop the social media pyramid to peddle misinformation and hurl abuse at his critics. Could his loose leash on the platforms come to an end on Jan. 20, 2021, when his successor is inaugurated? (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

    Speculation mounts over who Trump might pardon after Flynn

  • Former US national security adviser Michael Flynn

    After Flynn pardon, could Trump do the same for himself?

25 November 2020

  • Trump pardons Michael Flynn<br>epa08842389 (FILE) - Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lieutenant General Michael Flynn appears before the US House Intelligence Committee hearing on ‘Worldwide Threats’, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 04 February 2014 (Reissued 25 November 2020). US President Donald J. Trump tweeted on 25 November that he has given a full pardon to his former national security adviser, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS *** Local Caption *** 51210313

    US politics live
    Donald Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn – as it happened

    Flynn had pleaded guilty to lying about contacts with Russian operatives – follow live
  • Michael Flynn in February 2017. The retired general was a trusted Trump surrogate on the campaign trail in 2016.

    Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn

    Flynn, 61, pleaded guilty to lying to FBI over contacts with a Russian official
  • Former national security adviser michael Flynn

    Donald Trump plans to pardon Michael Flynn, former national security adviser – reports

    Flynn will be among a series of pardons before Trump leaves office, according to multiple reports

August 2020

  • Steve Bannon and Three Others Charged with Fraud, New York, USA - 20 Aug 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by G Ronald Lopez/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock (10750776f) President Donald Trump's former campaign CEO and later the White House chief strategist, STEVE BANNON, departs the US Federal Courthouses in Lower Manhattan, following his indictment for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a crowdfunding campaign to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bannon was arrested Thursday morning, on a boat docked at a marina in Westport, Connecticut. Bannon was released on bail. Steve Bannon and Three Others Charged with Fraud, New York, USA - 20 Aug 2020

    'Conmen, grifters and criminals': why is Trump's circle so at odds with the law?

    Apart from legal trouble, what Bannon, Manafort, Flynn, Cohen, Stone, Gates and Papadopoulos have in common is the president

June 2020

  • Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison. Trump tweeted his displeasure at the recommendation of up to nine years in prison, saying it had been too harsh.

    Roger Stone case: Trump ally given special treatment, Congress hears

    Aaron Zelinsky says prosecutors were under pressure to go easy on Stone because of his relationship with the president
  • Michael Flynn in December 2018. The DoJ filed a motion last month to dismiss the criminal charges against him.

    US appeals court orders judge to dismiss case against Michael Flynn

    Trump celebrates ‘great ruling’ that grants DoJ’s motion to force judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss criminal case
  • Michael Flynn in 2017. The justice department filed a motion last month to dismiss the case, saying the FBI had insufficient basis to question Flynn in the first place.

    DoJ push to dismiss Michael Flynn case a 'gross abuse of power', ex-judge finds

    John Gleeson condemns department’s ‘highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally’ and says motion to dismiss case should be denied
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