Donald Trump said Friday that he’s not ready ‘yet’ to talk about a possible presidential pardon for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
And he told reporters that Alabama Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore should admit he lost Tuesday’s election.
Flynn pleaded guilty last month to a charge of lying to the FBI about his pre-Inauguration contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.
Donald Trump said Friday that he’s not ready ‘yet’ to talk about a possible presidential pardon for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn
Flynn pleaded guilty last month to a charge of lying to the FBI about his pre-Inauguration contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.
‘I don’t want to talk about pardons with Michael Flynn yet. We’ll see what happens,’ the president said as he left the White House for a speech to FBI agents in Virginia.
‘When you look at what’s going on with the FBI and the Justice Department, people are very, very angry,’ he added.
Trump also threw a jab at the Justice Department for clearing Hillary Clinton in the case of her mishandling of classified information on a private email server.
That declaration came in the context of a question about whether his campaign colluded with Russia to tilt the 2016 election in his favor.
‘They found tremendous things on the other side,’ he said. ‘When you look at the Hillary Clinton investigation, it was – I’ve been saying for a long time – that was a rigged system, folks. That was a rigged system.
‘When you look at what they did with respect to the Hillary Clinton investigation, it was rigged. And there’s never been anything like it in this country that we’ve ever found before. It’s very, very sad. Very, very sad.’
Trump said Moore should throw in the towel instead of contesting his loss in a recount: ‘I think he should. He tried’
Trump also said Moore should throw in the towel instead of contesting his loss in a recount.
‘I think he should. He tried,’ he said.
‘I want to support – always I want to support the person running. We need the seat.’
But Moore, he said, should admit he lost and move on.
‘As Roy Moore, yeah, it’s certainly – I would certainly say he should.
The embattled former judge was knocked off his perch by Democrat Doug Jones in a stunning upset.
Alabama is a deep-red state that hadn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in a generation.