On Tuesday, Judge Emmet Sullivan finally dismissed the case against Michael Flynn on the basis of President Donald Trump’s pardon. But he couldn’t resist appending a 43-page memorandum opinion in which he states repeatedly, citing various court cases, that pardons do not equal innocence, that accepting a pardon is essentially admitting guilt, that the investigation against Flynn was justified, etc., etc., etc. Forced to concede that the President has the “general, unqualified grant of power to pardon offenses against the United States,” Sullivan ordered the case dismissed as moot.
Trump’s declassification and publication of documents related to the coup against his Presidency would be an enormous step forward to identifying the true origins of that operation, which could help achieve a sorely needed rupture of the abusive “Special Relationship” with Britain to which the U.S. has been submitting.
