Schiff, Nadler Slam Trump for Flynn Pardon: ‘Crooked to the End’
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) are letting President Donald Trump know how they feel about his decision to pardon former National…
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) are letting President Donald Trump know how they feel about his decision to pardon former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
“Donald Trump has repeatedly abused the pardon power to reward friends and protect those who covered up for him. This time he pardons Michael Flynn, who lied to hide his dealings with the Russians,” Schiff wrote on Twitter.
He added, “It’s no surprise that Trump would go out as he came in – Crooked to the end.”
Nadler released a statement of his own and called Trump’s pardon “undeserved, unprincipled, and one more stain on President Trump’s rapidly diminishing legacy.”
He claimed Trump “dangled” this pardon in front of Flynn so he would not cooperate with federal investigators.
Nadler argued his cooperation could have “exposed the president’s own wrongdoing.”
“This pardon is part of a pattern. We saw it before, in the Roger Stone case — where President Trump granted clemency to protect an individual who might have implicated the president in criminal misconduct,” Nadler wrote.