Retired General Michael Flynn’s pardon is eliciting expected responses from the left and the right. The left criticized the pardon as an attempt to protect the President while the right lauded it as vindication of a wrongfully-convicted person. Summary President Trump pardoned his former National Security Advisor, retired General Michael Flynn, on Wednesday afternoon. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators in relation to unfounded allegations of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Russian government. NPR reports …
