--- title: "Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn" description: "President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he had pardoned former national security adviser Michael Flynn" date: "2020-11-25" modified: "2020-11-25" authors: - name: "Jared Keller" job_title: "Former Managing Editor" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/michael-flynn-pardon/" categories: - "Army" - "Around the World" - "Intelligence" - "Military Branches" - "News" - "Tactics" - "Tech & Tactics" - "United States" tags: - "donald trump" - "justice" --- # Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn ![Michael Flynn]() *Former national security adviser Michael Flynn exits a vehicle as he arrives for his sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., December 18, 2018.* President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he had pardoned former national security adviser Michael Flynn. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331706255212228608 Flynn, a former Army lieutenant general, had previously pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election Flynn was one of several former Trump aides to plead guilty or be convicted at trial in the course of that investigation. As Reuters [reports](), Trump stated in March that he was considering a pardon for Flynn after the FBI and Justice Department "destroyed" his life. *This is a breaking news story and will be updated with new information as it becomes available* ## Author Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications. ### Author social links [Twitter]() [Facebook]() [LinkedIn]() [Instagram]()