The department’s decision is a reversal of one of the key cases brought by Robert Mueller in his Trump-Russia investigation
The US justice department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for the US president and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
The move was a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It came even though prosecutors for the past three years have maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.
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