President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn has just hit the federal government with a $50 million lawsuit.
Flynn filed the claim against the FBI and Justice Department for “malicious prosecution” over the bogus Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
On Feb. 22, Flynn filed a Form 95 Civil Claim.
It names the DOJ, FBI, U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington D.C., Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, and Barack Obama’s Executive Office of the President as defendants.
The claim alleges Obama and the FBI abused their powers to pursue a vendetta against Flynn.
“Of all of President Trump’s appointees, the Obama White House hated Flynn the most,” the filing says.
“The FBI began to express disdain for candidate Donald J. Trump and began to consider ways in which it could hamper Donald Trump as candidate or as President, were he to win the 2016 election.
“As part of these efforts, the FBI began to target Flynn.
“Flynn was no stranger to the FBI and its leadership, many of whom considered Flynn to be a personal enemy of the FBI and the success of their own FBI careers.
“During this meeting, the participants agreed to try to damage incoming President Trump and his new Administration, including by trying to prosecute Flynn, President-elect Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor, to cause him to resign as NSA, to cripple President Trump’s ability to implement national security and foreign affairs policy changes, and potentially to get Flynn to turn on President Trump.
“They also agreed to withhold this agreement from the ‘transition team.’”
Flynn’s claim continues:
On or about November 10, 2016, two days after the Presidential Election, President-elect Trump met with President Obama in the Oval Office.
During this meeting, President Obama warned President-elect Trump he had profound concerns about hiring Flynn for any sensitive, high-level national security positions.
President Obama made this statement despite himself having appointed Flynn to the position of Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012.
In 2014, Flynn roiled FBI leadership by intervening on behalf of Robyn Gritz, a decorated counterterrorism agent who specifically named and accused Andrew McCabe and other top FBI officials of sexual discrimination and retaliation in her complaint.
Flynn’s support of Gritz included a letter in 2014 on his official Pentagon stationary, a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz’s case, and an offer to testify on her behalf.
His offer to testify made him a hostile witness against McCabe, who was soaring through the FBI leadership ranks.
The FBI even sought to block Flynn’s support for the agent, asking a federal administrative law judge in May 2014 to keep Flynn from becoming a witness.
Flynn was the target of a politically motivated investigation and prosecution that had no merit when it began, no merit during its course, and no merit in the end when the charges were withdrawn by the DOJ and ultimately dismissed by the Court after Flynn received a full pardon.
During that meritless and unlawful investigation and prosecution, Flynn was falsely and maliciously painted by the conspirators as a traitor to his nation who acted in concert with a foreign power, and the SCO even threatened Flynn’s son with prosecution unless Flynn were to plead guilty.
The federal government’s targeting of a citizen for baseless criminal prosecution and eliciting a plea bargain through threatening of family members is outrageous conduct of the highest order.
The fact that it was orchestrated and carried out at the highest levels of the FBI, DOJ, and White House makes it all the more outrageous.”
Flynn is seeking “compensatory damages including but not limited to lost past and future earnings/revenue, emotional distress, lost opportunity to be President’s National Security Advisor, significant restraints of personal liberty, attorney fees/expenses and court costs in defending against malicious prosecution, abuse of process, false arrest.”
Flynn’s lawyer Jesse Binnall said if the claim is denied, Flynn will sue.
“For years government bureaucrats and left-wing agitators believed they could attack General Flynn with impunity,” Binnall said.
“No more.
“If you wrongfully attack an American hero, then you should be held to account.
“This Federal Tort Claims Act Action is just the beginning of that accountability.
“Lt. General Michael Flynn will no longer be the pincushion of the radical left.”
