Can Trump Hew the Hard Line After Bolton?

Editorial of The New York Sun | September 10, 2019

Two names stand out as particularly newsworthy among those being mentioned, at least to us, as possible National Security Adviser following the departure of John Bolton. One is our envoy to Free Germany, Ambassador Rick Grenell, who, we hear, is due to speak with the President late this week. The other is — wait for it — General Michael Flynn, who had the NSC job for a month at the start of Mr. Trump’s presidency.

 

We caution our readers that these names reached us only as Washington scuttlebutt. Even as such, though, they may prove to be a window into the jousting ahead for a post that does not require Senate confirmation. General Flynn’s name is particularly startling, given that he’s a felon awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to misleading the FBI over his contacts with Russia’s former envoy here.

Whether that guilty plea will survive, though, has been in doubt for some time. Just today General Flynn’s lawyers accused the prosecutors — that is, Special Counsel Mueller’s team — of “egregious government misconduct” in withholding exculpatory evidence that due process required them to disclose to the defense. The New York Sun nine months ago called on the Judge, Emmet Sullivan, to reject the general’s guilty plea............To Read More....