Documents released by former attorneys for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn contain exculpatory evidence that could leave him exonerated as early as this week of charges that he lied to the FBI, according to reports on Monday.
"Those documents are exculpatory evidence they were not shown to the court initially and basically what they say there are notes about Michael Flynn's meeting at the White House with the FBI, that it was a complete setup and that he never lied," Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo told Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., in an interview Monday.
Bartiromo's comments on Monday came after she tweeted that "sources" told her Flynn "will be completely exonerated this week. It was a total fraud. A Set up. More tomorrow." President Donald Trump retweeted her message.
Last Friday, federal prosecutors asked a judge for at least two weeks to review statements from Flynn's former attorneys, filed while he is trying to reverse his guilty plea on grounds that the team had not given him proper advice, reports Politico. A letter accompanied the several hundred pages of documentation, which have not been publicly released, saying that "the government produced "stunning Brady evidence" proving Flynn's allegations of "having been deliberately set up and framed by corrupt agents at the top of the FBI."
Collins agreed that "we don't know what was submitted to the court on Friday evening but we believe that it's possibly exculpatory evidence that the government had on Gen. Flynn."
He added that there are "plenty of ways to look and see" if there was a problem with Flynn's interview with the FBI, which led to his guilty plea on charges of lying about conversations he had with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
"This is nothing more than an unveiling and an unpeeling of the corrupt cabal wanting to get candidate Trump and President Trump," he added.
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