Michael Flynn, who served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser for just 24 days before being cut loose, may be the key figure to unraveling the entire Russia scandal. If that’s true, the president just got some very, very bad news in the form of a New York Times report:
Lawyers for Flynn notified the president’s legal team in recent days that they could no longer discuss the special counsel’s investigation, according to four people involved in the case - an indication that Flynn is cooperating with prosecutors or negotiating a deal.
Flynn’s lawyers had been sharing information with Trump’s lawyers about the investigation by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, who is examining whether anyone around Trump was involved in Russian efforts to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.