DOJ Agrees to Pay Ex-Trump Adviser Michael Flynn in Settlement

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12. MaddowBlog-Trump's Justice Department agrees to financial settlement with Michael Flynn

The financial settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family was indefensible. The payout to Trump’s former national security adviser is worse.

For Michael Flynn, the corrupt pardon he received wasn’t enough. He wanted a payout, too, claiming federal law enforcement subjected him to malicious prosecution when they charged him with crimes he’d twice pleaded guilty to.

Thanks to Trump’s DOJ, he’ll now get a taxpayer-financed check.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-25T19:54:38.318Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-justice-department-agrees-to-financial-settlement-with-michael-flynn

This week, it happened again. MS NOW reported that Trump’s DOJ has struck a deal with former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn. Bloomberg News published a related report:

The Justice Department has reached a financial settlement with Michael Flynn, a conservative activist and former official in the first Trump administration who sought millions of dollars from the government for what he alleged was a wrongful prosecution effort.

Lawyers for the government and for Flynn notified a federal judge in Florida on Wednesday that they had reached an agreement and that it would involve the payment of “settlement funds,” but did not disclose the amount or any other terms.

The brief court filing alerting the court to the financial settlement was posted online Wednesday afternoon.

While we don’t yet know how much money Flynn will get, the fact that he’ll walk away with any amount of taxpayer money is outrageous.......

Late on a Wednesday afternoon, the day before Thanksgiving 2020, Trump quietly pardoned Flynn. It was among the most corrupt moves the president made during his first term.

The editorial board of The Washington Post (back when it was still the editorial board of The Washington Post) wrote soon after about Trump’s America: “Guilty is innocent; lies are truth; traitors are patriots. The question is not whether Mr. Trump has degraded the presidency. The question is how much long-term damage he has done. Will future presidents now feel free to use the pardon power — or the other vast powers of office — with such nakedly crooked motives? How many will calculate that they can make corruption appear to be patriotism as long as enough of the country wants to believe the lies they tell?”

The pardon, however, apparently wasn’t enough. Flynn wanted a payout, too, claiming federal law enforcement subjected him to malicious prosecution when they charged him with crimes he had twice pleaded guilty to.

Thanks to Trump’s DOJ, he’ll now get one.