Outside counsel says Trump's 'pressure campaign' moved DOJ to drop Flynn charges

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Anyone surprised? So much for draining the swamp. Same swamp, different alligators.

In the United States, Presidents do not orchestrate pressure campaigns to get the Justice Department to drop charges against defendants who have pleaded guilty — twice, before two different judges — and whose guilt is obvious," Gleeson wrote in the filing. "And the Justice Department does not seek to dismiss criminal charges on grounds riddled with legal and factual error, then argue that the validity of those grounds cannot even be briefed to the Court that accepted the defendant’s guilty plea."

"Yet that is exactly what has unfolded here," he added. "There is clear evidence that the Government’s Motion to Dismiss the case against Defendant Michael T. Flynn rests on pure pretext. There is clear evidence that this motion reflects a corrupt and politically motivated favor unworthy of our justice system...

..."Based entirely on evidence already in the public view, the only coherent explanation for the Government’s exceedingly irregular motion —as well as its demonstrable pretexts — is that the Justice Department has yielded to a pressure campaign led by the President for his political associate," Gleeson wrote."