Few lasting fusillades of outrage have been launched over President Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving-Eve pardon of former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
Oh, there’s the usual general grumbling from the left because, well, the president took an action, and that action as always must be opposed. But there’s no Ford-pardons-Nixon rage or even the burn that followed President Bill Clinton’s announcement of his extensive 2001 clemency list.
Why? Because the incoming Biden presidential administration doesn’t want too much talk circulating about those last few months preceding the 2017 Trump inauguration. That was when the Barack Obama White House – with Biden as vice president – was actively working to discredit the new administration before it began.
Even as the Biden administration seeks to employ retreads from those Obama years, an investigation by U.S. attorney John Durham on how a now discredited investigation on Trump colluding with Russians got started is ongoing.
What happened to Flynn, who was Trump’s national security adviser for 22 days before he was fired for supposedly lying to the FBI and to Vice President Mike Pence, is wrapped up in that Obama-Biden administration cabal.