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February 14:
President Donald Trump's ouster of national security adviser Michael Flynn, and
the circumstances leading up to it, have quickly become a major crisis for the
fledgling administration, forcing the White House on the defensive and
precipitating the first significant breach in relations between Trump and an
increasingly restive Republican Congress.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-michael-flynn-resigns-20170214-story.html
February 15:
Just six days into his presidency, Donald Trump was informed his national
security adviser had misled his vice president about contacts with Russia. Trump
kept his No. 2 in the dark and waited nearly three weeks before ousting the
aide, Michael Flynn, citing a slow but steady erosion of trust, White House
officials said Tuesday.
https://www.apnews.com/44c0a5194f8e429ea799b2f5916485bf
April 25: Senior lawmakers on the House
Oversight Committee say Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser,
appears to have violated the law when he took payments from groups associated
with foreign governments.
Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md.,
spoke at a news conference Tuesday, after they received a classified briefing.
April 27: "General Flynn is a wonderful man,"
Trump said days after he fired his national security adviser. "I think he
has been treated very, very unfairly by the media, as I call it, the fake
media, in many cases. And I think it is really a sad thing that he was treated
so badly."
Right around that same time,
Trump told a group of reporters of Flynn: "I asked for his resignation. He
respectfully gave it. With all that being said, I think he's a fine man."
... these Trump comments came AFTER it became clear
that Flynn has misled everyone, up to Vice President Mike Pence, regarding his
contacts -- and the nature of those contacts -- with [Russian] Kislyak. Even
after all of that, Trump called him a "wonderful man" and blamed Flynn's
departure, at least in part, on the "fake media." [See February
15]
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/27/politics/mike-flynn-donald-trump/index.html
April 27: The Pentagon is investigating whether Michael Flynn broke the
law by receiving money from a foreign source after retiring from the service,
according to a letter written by the Department of Defense's acting inspector
general to House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz.
April 30: ... President Donald Trump's former national
security adviser [Michael Flynn] had been warned as far back as 2014 that he could not
give paid speeches to foreign governments [but] he had traveled to Russia to give a speech
to RT TV, a media operation widely regarded as a propaganda arm for the
Russian government ...
April 30: Former
national security adviser Susan Rice fired back at President Trump's claim that
the Obama administration should have properly vetted Trump's former national
security adviser Michael Flynn. ... The Trump administration, like ...
every previous administration, had an expectation and an obligation to vet, to
their satisfaction, those individuals that the President was appointing to high
positions ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/susan-rice-trump-obama-michael-flynn-vetting-2017-4
May 22: President Donald
Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn won't provide records
to the Senate intelligence committee and will invoke his Fifth Amendment
rights in response to a subpoena from the committee, according to a source
close to Flynn.
August 5: Federal investigators are
examining whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn was secretly
paid by the Turkish government to lobby against a critic of Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to a report from The New York Times.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/politics/mueller-white-house-documents-flynn/index.html
November 10: Former White House national
security adviser Mike Flynn and his son are alleged to have been offered as much
as $15 million to forcibly remove from the US a Muslim cleric wanted by Turkey,
The Wall Street Journal
reports.
December 2: “The question of whether Trump
committed obstruction of justice when he asked Comey to drop the investigation
on Valentine’s Day will largely turn on Trump’s intent: was he just trying to
put in a good word for Flynn, or was he in fact trying to end a criminal
investigation?” [Harvard Law professor and former federal prosecutor Alex]
Whiting said in an email. “If he genuinely believed that Flynn did nothing
wrong, that tends to support the former interpretation. But if, as he now
admits, he knew that Flynn had lied to the FBI, a federal crime, then he knew
that by asking Comey to drop the investigation, he was seeking to end a
meritorious criminal investigation.”
December 3: Trump on Twitter -- "I had to
fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI,"
the Saturday tweet reads. "He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame
because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to
hide!"
Trump's attorney -- President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd,
confirmed to CNN on Sunday that he wrote a tweet for the @realDonaldTrump
Twitter account about the firing of former White House national security adviser
Michael Flynn.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/03/politics/flynn-firing-dowd-tweet/index.html
December 4: The
White House's chief lawyer told President Donald Trump in January he believed
then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled the FBI and lied to Vice
President Mike Pence and should be fired, a source familiar with the matter said
Monday.
The description of the conversation raises new questions about what Trump knew
about Flynn's situation when he urged then-FBI Director James Comey to drop the
investigation into Flynn and whether anyone in the White House, including the
President himself, attempted to obstruct justice. Special counsel Robert Mueller
is investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russians, a probe led
by Comey until Trump fired him.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/wh-lawyer-told-trump-flynn-misled-fbi-pence/index.html
January 23: Special counsel Robert S.
Mueller III is seeking to question President Trump in the coming weeks about his
decisions to oust national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James
B. Comey, according to two people familiar with his plans.
December 4: Former national security adviser
Michael Flynn has provided "substantial" aid in the Russia investigation and
beyond — and that merits a judge's consideration at Flynn's sentencing this
month,
prosecutors said in court papers late Tuesday.
The government said in a memo to a federal judge that it believes sentencing for
Flynn should be lenient and that even a sentence without prison time "is
appropriate and warranted."
December
11: Michael Flynn Asks For No Prison Time, Cites Help He Gave Special
Counsel
[Flynn's] attorneys are requesting that Flynn receive no more than one year of
probation, with minimal supervision, and 200 hours of community service.
December
14: The special counsel’s office rejected on Friday a suggestion from
Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, that he
had been tricked into lying last year to F.B.I. agents investigating Russia’s
election interference and ties to Trump associates.
Prosecutors laid out a pattern of lies by Mr. Flynn to Vice President Mike
Pence, senior White House aides, federal investigators and the news media in the
weeks before and after the presidential inauguration as he scrambled to obscure
the truth about his communications during the presidential transition with
Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States at the time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/us/politics/michael-flynn-fbi-donald-trump.html
December
17: Two associates of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
were charged by federal prosecutors with acting as agents of a foreign
government Monday.
December 18: Federal Judge Delays Michael
Flynn Sentencing In Case Of Lying To Feds
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said he has significant outstanding questions
about the case, including how the government's Russia investigation was impeded
and the material impact of Flynn's lies on the special counsel's inquiry.
