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There’s new evidence that Attorney General William Barr is enabling President Trump’s corruption. A former federal judge writes that the Department of Justice’s support of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who admitted that he lied to the FBI, is “a gross abuse of prosecutorial power.”
Politico reports that John Gleeson, the former judge, asked by the presiding judge to file a friend of the court brief, wrote an 82-page brief that excoriates DOJ, overseen by Attorney General William Barr. Gleeson wrote that DOJ’s arguments were “preposterous,” “not credible,” and “riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact.” He concluded:
“They reveal an unconvincing effort to disguise as legitimate a decision to dismiss that is based solely on the fact that Flynn is a political ally of President Trump.”
Gleeson recommended that the court disregard DOJ’s arguments and move quickly to sentence Flynn, who, to repeat, confessed twice to lying to federal investigators.
