Lieu: Trump’s Pardon Is ‘Corrupt’ — ‘Congress Needs to Hold Michael Flynn Accountable’

[mystery-ak]

Lieu: Trump’s Pardon Is ‘Corrupt’ — ‘Congress Needs to Hold Michael Flynn Accountable’

Pam Key 26 Nov 2020

Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC that Congress needed to hold former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn “accountable” because President Donald Trump’s pardon was “corrupt.”

Anchor Yasmin Vossoughian said, “Let’s talk about this controversial pardon overnight of Mike Flynn. Here is what Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler tweeted, and I quote, ‘Mike Flynn lied to investigators about communicating with a foreign adversary, that’s a crime. Trump dangled a pardon in exchange for Flynn’s cooperation, that is abuse of power.’ Is the Judiciary Committee prepared to do more than finger-wagging at this point after this pardon?”

Lieu said, “I do believe that Congress needs to hold Michael Flynn accountable. But let’s first be grateful that Michael Flynn was, in fact, fired and did not serve as national security adviser for the last four years because that would have been a corrupt disaster. That’s in large part due to the professionalism and hard work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I want to commend the FBI for their investigation into Michael Flynn.”

He added, “This pardon itself is corrupt. I agree with Chairman Nadler that he was dangled a pardon. That’s why he remained silent and did not incriminate Donald Trump. But now that the pardon has happened, his Fifth Amendment right regarding this issue goes away, and Michael Flynn will now have to testify about what Donald Trump knew related to Russia.”

more
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/26/lieu-trumps-pardon-is-corrupt-congress-needs-to-hold-michael-flynn-accountable/

[bigheadfred]

FFS

[Hoodat]

Maybe someone should hold Lieu accountable for offering a minor alcohol and pot as an incentive to cross state lines.

[bigheadfred]

Maybe someone should hold Lieu accountable for offering a minor alcohol and pot as an incentive to cross state lines.

Strange days have found us.

[Smokin Joe]

It'd be more interesting to see testimony about Biden and the Ukraine, not to mention the CCP.

[GtHawk]

But Clinton and Obama pardoning murdering terrorists was just and moral? I don't recall any outraged democrats back then.

[skeeter]

I care very little, and less each day, what these pigmies think.

[PeteS in CA]

Some Lieu wants to disregard both the President's Constitutional pardon power and the Constitution's forbidding of double jeopardy?  How soon before he goes for a bill of attainder and an ex post facto law?

[The_Reader_David]

Some Lieu wants to disregard both the President's Constitutional pardon power and the Constitution's forbidding of double jeopardy?  How soon before he goes for a bill of attainder and an ex post facto law?

Other than by a bill of attainder or an ex post facto law, I'm not sure how a legislative body is supposed to hold Flynn or anyone else accountable, and seeing that both are unconstitutional, Lieu is just making meaningless noise.