President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he had pardoned Michael Flynn, his first national security advisor, who pleaded guilty three years ago to lying to FBI agents.The pardon came before a judge had ruled on a pending motion by the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss the case and Flynn’s guilty plea. Flynn had twice admitted to a federal judge that he made false statements to FBI agents about the nature of his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the United States in the weeks before Trump’s inauguration in January 2017.”It is my Great Honor to announce that …
