Vice President
Mike Pence seems ready for former national security adviser Michael Flynn to come back to the
White House after the
Justice Department moved last week to drop its criminal case against him, Axios reports.Flynn was a major player in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into 2016
Russian election interference. He pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to
FBI agents about his conversations with the former Russian Ambassador to the
United States Sergey Kislyak, but the Justice Department on Thursday said the interview which contained Flynn's admission was "conducted without any legitimate investigative basis."There isn't any official indication that Flynn will find his way back to the White House, although Axios reports that some insiders wouldn't be surprised to see him on the campaign trail this year. Pence, at least, apparently wouldn't object to that. He described Flynn as "an
American patriot" and said the Justice Department's decision "laid bare" what was "clearly prosecutorial abuse."