Sen. Pat Toomey said President Trump should pardon his former national security adviser Michael Flynn over charges that he lied to the FBI.
“I think Michael Flynn should be pardoned,” Toomey said Wednesday on The Chris Stigall Show. “He has not been convicted of anything. The prosecutorial discretion that ought to be afforded to the Justice Department as it is in every other case — they recognize that he should not be prosecuted.”
The Pennsylvania Republican, who rebuked Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence, added that the Flynn case is “very different” from that of Stone. Toomey’s criticism of Trump’s decision to commute Stone’s sentence prompted the president to blast him and Mitt Romney on Twitter, calling them “RINOs.”
Trump commuted Stone’s sentence earlier this month after the latter’s proposition to delay his 40-month prison sentence was rejected. Stone, 67, was charged as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Flynn, who was briefly Trump’s first national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents in 2017 but filed to withdraw his guilty plea earlier this year. The Justice Department asked the judge to sentence him to up to six months in prison but later moved to drop the criminal case.
