A top Republican congressman slammed those attempting to continue the case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn weeks after the Department of Justice moved to dismiss it.
Speaking on Fox News Thursday morning, Rep. Jim Jordan admonished the findings of retired New York federal judge John Gleeson, who on Wednesday argued that the DOJ was guilty of a “gross abuse of prosecutorial power.”
“This judge is talking about abuse of power now?” the Ohio Republican exclaimed. “The abuse of power was then. This is how the Left operates, and I think the American people see this for what it is.”
Presiding Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Clinton appointee who has overseen the case since 2017, tasked Gleeson with acting as an amicus curiae to review the case and present arguments in opposition to the DOJ’s motion to drop the false statement charges against the former national security adviser.
“What’s rich here is Judge Gleeson using the term ‘abuse of power.’ Are you kidding me?” said Jordan. “First of all, a few years ago, Judge Gleeson said a prosecutor can drop the case at any time for any reason. Now, he’s suddenly changed, which shows how political this is from his perspective and, I think, from Judge Sullivan’s perspective.”
Jordan said the hypocrisy from the two judges was “crazy” before walking through the timeline of the Flynn investigation. He noted that FBI agent Peter Strzok instructed the agency to keep Flynn’s case open after agents investigating his December 2016 phone call with former Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak found “no derogatory information.”
