Democrats accuse US President Trump of politicising the Justice Department after court orders criminal charges dropped against former national security adviser Michael Flynn
Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, departs a federal courthouse after a hearing, Monday, June 24, 2019 in Washington.
The White House and Justice Department declared victory even as Democrats added the Flynn case to a list of examples they alleged showed Barr corrupting the judicial process to aid Trump politically. "He is the president's fixer. He has shown us that there is one set of rules for the president's friends, and another set of rules for the rest of us," Nadler said.
But on May 7 Barr intervened and asked the court to drop the case completely, saying there was never any legitimate basis for the counterintelligence investigation against Flynn, which began under Trump's predecessor president Barack Obama.But it opened a deep rift in the Justice Department, with the resignation of the federal attorneys who had prosecuted the case; and sparked outrage within the broader justice community.
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