Trump Considers Adding 'Fully Exonerated' Flynn to Staff

Amid new revelations that might "fully exonerate" former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump is weighing a bold move to bring him back into the administration.

"This is the first time I've been asked that question, but I think he will be fully exonerated one way or the other, and so certainly he'd be capable of coming back," Trump told reporters Thursday. "He's suffered greatly."

Flynn had plead guilty to one count of lying to federal agents, but citing "egregious misconduct," he withdrew that plea.

"Gen. Flynn was under enormous pressure, and it was an artificial pressure, because what they did to Gen. Flynn was a disgrace," Trump said. "It was a total disgrace; it's shocking, and I hear even more information came out today.

"What they tried to do to destroy him and to hurt this presidency was, perhaps in this country's history there's never been anything like it, and absolute disgrace.

"What happened to Gen. Flynn should never happen again to a citizen of this country."

The Justice Department has released documents of internal FBI investigation notes suggesting a concerted Obama administration DOJ effort to get Flynn to admit to violating the Logan Act, get caught in a "lie," or "be fired."

The hundreds of years old Logan Act has never been used in a criminal prosecution and Flynn's work in question was on behalf of the Trump transition team.

"It looks to me like Michael Flynn would be exonerated based on everything I see," Trump said, not ruling out a potential pardon if the case will not be dropped by his DOJ. "I'm not a judge, but I have a different type of power."

"But I don't think anybody would have to use that power. I think he's exonerated. I've never seen anything like it – what they did, what they wrote."

Trump said he will weigh bringing Flynn back, if not pardoning him, "maybe someday."

"Hopefully, we won't have to get there," Trump concluded.