Judge excoriates Trump’s former adviser — but delays sentencing
The judge says Michael Flynn ‘arguably’ sold out his country and he may yet face prison time
Washington — A US judge fiercely criticised President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Tuesday for lying to FBI agents in a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, but delayed sentencing him until Flynn has finished helping prosecutors. US district judge Emmet Sullivan told Flynn, a retired US Army lieutenant-general and former director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, that he had arguably betrayed his country. Sullivan also noted that Flynn had operated as an undeclared lobbyist for Turkey even as he worked on Trump’s campaign team and prepared to be his White House national security adviser. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his December 2016 conversations with Sergey Kislyak, then Russia’s ambassador in Washington, about US sanctions imposed on Moscow by the administration of Trump’s Democratic predecessor Barack Obama. The conversations took place between Trump’s November election victory and his inauguration in...
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